Messages posted by: Carbonize

I'd say thats the line you'd need to change to something else.

Just a case of editting the admin HTML then to change the <input to a <textarea> instead.

Where ever you want to start on a new line.

Tried <br> ?

To my knowledge you can put ANYTHING as the option, even HTML and javascript.

Do a search or read the sticky thread at the top of this forum.

You will find a load of mail scripts on hotscripts.com. Or you could make your own with just a little PHP knowledge.

The guestbook, like all forms, works by having inputs for you to fill in. Each input has a name so it can be identified when submitted. The spam used to work by just sending a packet (how all information is sent over the net) to your server with the names of the inputs with the data they want posted. Some even sent the input names for both AG 2.2 and 2.3.1 in the same packets.

The simple anti spam method works by changing the name given to the submit button. If the buttons correct name is not sent in the packet the guestbook will just ignore the packet. Since I wrote this though a couple of the spammers have gotten wise to this (I guess they read this forum or my own). Their scripts/programs now visit the page first to get the names of the inputs before sending the data.

While this is still a valid method for stopping a large percentage of spam (I stopped 350 posts in a month using this method) I'd suggest using it in association with the human verification.

Bet Auron's happy now he doesn't have to explain how to do it :p
It's quite funny because I just had to help a bloke with the guestbook who had used .htaccess to pass .htm to the processor. Personally I see no reason to not use .php but ho hum.

Isn't 1.1 the predecessor of 1.5 and text based rather than database based?

The search engine found your page once, it would find it again. Your other options are to set up a 302 page moved header for the htm extension and point it to the new page or simply .htaccess file to send anyone requesting the .html extension to the .php extension.

Ah you are using the text version of the poll. This could be a problem. Let me look into it. Still say it's weird locking fclose but not fopen.

At a guess the same thing that is in class_templates.php exists in class_session.php. Open it in a text editor and look for the same as before.

Naturally changing the 8 for the number of your last poll. Would you start it from 0 though? I thought the first three polls were demo ones ?

Only way to make it more efficient would be to use a loop to go through them all.