Messages posted by: Carbonize

Most web designers don't like frames. For one thing search engines have a nasty habit of linking to the framed pages and not the main page and so do other people. There is also the issue of not all browsers supporting frames.

Just to add that your cross browser marquee script in the top frame doesn't want to work in my Firefox.

Ok I download a free web template and converted it to use includes. You can see it in action at http://carbonize.co.uk/test/ and the link to download the zip containing the files is on the page as well.

If you have PHP support on your hosts you could use <?php include("path/to/guestbook/index.php"); ?> where the image is.

If you unzip the file i sent you and upload the three files into your Guestbook folder it should work fine.

Sounds like you either need to use frames (yuck) or a quick lesson in the use of includes. On a different track I suggest not using jpg's for your roll over menu images due to the jpg artifacts you get.

Anyway since includes have come up a lot I'm going to right a simple 6 webpage demo of how they work. I'll put something on here once it's done.

I didn't think it would be. It's the Max_Length value it was exceeding but I couldn't find where that was set.

raven.html is just the page I made to show what th efinished product should look like. The three pages needed are header, footer and content.php. You goto content.php in your browser and it should add the header and footer in the right places.

Ifd this has just started happening the problem maybe down to your hosts or have you turned cookies off?

My advice is either make the frame larger or make the guestbook open in a new window.

Both the Ravenprom guestbook layout and my entire site were achieved using a simple snippet of PHP code. It is a function called include. First design a page placing the word guestbook where you want the guestbook to go. Remember that the guestbook is a pretty big item. Next you go through the HTML and everything from the start up until the word Guestbook you save into a file called header.php. You then take everything from the end of the word guestbook right up to the very end and save it to a file called footer.php. You now have two choices. The first is to overwrite the header.php and footer.php files that already exist in the guestbooks templates. Second is to place the newly made header and footer files in your webspace and place include ('header.php'); just after the initial <? in index.php of your guestbook then place include ('footer.php'); before the closing ?>.

By now you are probably confused as hell but I hope not. If I get chance I will make a simple demonstration and upload the files somewhere. My entire site only has a sinlge header and footer file that is used by every page.

Just noticed there is an update file actually included with 2.3.1. It requires the user to have access to phpmyadmin but it is there. If requested I will convert it to a PHP script. Once again

I am in the middle of writing an script to allow users of Advanced guestbook 2.2 to upgrade to 2.3.1 without losing any info. Before I release it I want to test it extensively on my own testbox so I require the files for 2.2 so I can install it first and make some entries before testing my upgrade script. If you have the install package please email it to me using ag22@carbonize.co.uk

Thanks

Just put the guestbook as the frames source.

Do a google search for bad word list.

I've got one already, the 2.2 install file that is. The problem is converting the timestamps entry from a timestamp to an int without corrupting the info.