Messages posted by: Brianr

Open entry.php and look for

<td colspan="2" class="font2">$LANG[FormLoc]: $row[location]</td>

Try removing the tag . Replace it with a space if you don't want the location to be tight against the colon. I'm not sure why LA doesn't break to the second line, but a longer location does.

I'm not positive this will solve it, but you can experiment if it doesn't

See if you can find it in form.php. It should be this part of the line or something similar

| <img src="$GB_PG[base_url]/img/lock.gif" width="9" height="11"> <a href="$GB_PG[admin]">$LANG[BookMess5]</a>

Change

<hr size="0">$com[name]:

to

<hr size="0">$com[name]:

That should fix it.

Did you hard code the colour change for the comment itself in com.php:

<td>
<hr size="1">$com[name]: 
$com[comments]
</td>

If so just add color="#FFFFFF" to the first font tag

<td>
<hr size="1">$com[name]: 
$com[comments]
</td>

That should override whatever default setting you have in Admin | Style but setting your default text to #FFFFFFF should accomplish the same thing

Yeah and I don't know why some sites will not load properly without it.

Generally, as you know, when you call a directory like "www.yourdomain.com/guestbook" it defaults to the index file in the directory. In the cases where the images aren't showing, the index file is opening but the paths to the images are wrong.

May be something to do with server set up?

If your background is black, setting the colour to FFFFFF in the Admin Panel | Style should give you white as the default text colour.

Can you post the guestbook URL and indicate some text with the specific problem.

For the guestbook, try setting the link to

http://www.lindsaywagner.net/guestbook1/index.php

I'm not sure why it is, but if you make index.php part of the URL it seems to work fine.

Sorry, I thought your question on the poll was relaed to layout. Someone who understands PHP and the necessary paths will have to help with the poll question

1) No, the entire guestbook loads from your server. I've encountered slow-loading depending on how I'm connecting to my guestbooks. If I try from work they hang for a couple of minutes then load. Haven't encountered it using any other connection and unfortunately I'm not sure why it happens. But I haven't had a problem with poor images.

What's the guestbook URL

2) It should work in tables, if no other way. If you look at http://proxy2.de/poll/index.php the three polls are each within table cells.

Do you have a sample page set up?

That's gb.class.php which you'll find in the lib directory.

My only caveat is that you need to be good with PHP to make any changes there.

If you can't make the layout changes through the admin section, there are 3 pages involved

header.php
body.php
footer.php

You're probably looking for body.php, but depending on what layout you want to change, you may need to work with the others as well

Agreed. Fully integrated CSS would improve the look and make customising relatively easy.

However, if you do know CSS you can combine it with some HTML changes to get around some of the shortcomings.

Unfortunately, it's not something that's available to everyone because it's done outside the basic style settings that are available in the admin panel.

If that's the case, I think you'll find that

http://www.thuleab.dk/./mod/guestbook/img/female.gif

will resolve to

http://www.thuleab.dk/mod/guestbook/img/female.gif

If you want, try changing the path on the other guestbook to

/./annemariesalling/mod/guestbook/img/ip.gif

that way the path is the same as your own guestbook. From what I can see, the /. isn't required, but it also doesn't do any harm.

when I look at your code, I see, for example

/annemariesalling./mod/guestbook/img/ip.gif"

If you delete the period after annemariesalling in all the tags, the images should load, assuming there are no coding errors other than that

Sure it does

In header.php and success.php The defaults are set in the admin settings

Plus you can add your own in both of those.

Check out my link and view the page source.

Auron, guess I should have signed in before I posted that. Tough getting old

I too can help out in some areas like CSS, changing styles, tweaking the HTML and will do so when I can. Not much help with PHP, though.

I've been using the Ultimate Advanced Guestbook on a few sites ( sample here) but I should be able to apply whatever knowledge I've gained to the Advanced Guestbook