Messages posted by: Carbonize

Yes as is being discussed in another thread AOL's spam filters hate email notifications.

Hmmmmmmmmmm I don't see why my idea of doubling the mail function didn't work. I wonder if putting a CC in the header would work. Let me look into it.

phpMyAdmin is a script you install just like the guestbook. It then lets you edit information in your MySQL database. Using this you could browse the entries and manually change the timestamp in the entries.

I am an ex AOL user and here is why I don't like it
1 - You HAVE to use their software
2 - Their software infests your system like a virus and is a pain to remove
3 - The limit what you can actually do online (I'm a programmer and need more than web sites and email)

As to your comment about them not getting taken over and emails changed this is partly true. They tend to do the taking over and then succeed in killing off what they buy. Exampls are Netscape and Winamp, both projects that AOL purchased and both projects that are now dead.

this is where it gets confusing because the webmaster updated the scripts but left it as 2.3.1. Anyway if you downloaded 2.3.1 after Christmas then you only have to worry about the second one. If you downloaded it befoer then you need to do the second and third one although I think I will rewrite the last one as the webmasters method is better.

It's something totaly different.

Most people have phpMyAdmin installed for directly editting MySQL entries.

Or you could turn off flood control, input all the entries using the guestbooks form and then use phpMyAdmin to edit the timestamps in the database.

Take it your host does not keep backups of the MySQL tables then? or aer you your host? The time/date is stored as a unix timestamp. You may find this site useful - http://www.4webhelp.net/us/timestamp.php.

Actually I'm not 100% suer what it is you want. If you want to change where the data gets submitted to then edit form.php and change the action=" attribute.

Merging is not an option in this forum script.

Explain exactly what it is you are trying to do.

BTW I am not saying don't use AOL as your ISP (although there are plenty of reasons not to) I am saying don't use them for your email. As I stated above, and you touched on, if they are blocking the guestbook entries what other LEGITIMATE emails are they blocking you from getting? This is why I use an email provider with POP access and I use a spam filter on my computer so I don't get an inbox filled up with spam but I can see ALL the emails I get sent and fish any real ones out of the bin.

Actually IE did show the results but then a piece of javascript took you away from them. I'd say it was that was responsible. Auron is the poll specialist whilst Advanced Guestbook is my specialist subject.

Comments to comments? Do you mean the comments you can add to guestbook entries? If so you can edit templates/com.php.