Messages posted by: ET

JTD wrote:

D.A. wrote:I think you all are wrong. The robots metatag does not achieve exactly the same thing. The robots.txt "noindex, nofollow" is to keep your guestbook from being indexed by the search engines. The (rel="nofollow") is for guestbooks that you want indexed but you do not want the hyperlinks appearing in the guestbook to get credit. See the difference?

You really need to read up on robots.txt files and doing the same thing with a meta tag. They both do the same thing. With one I make a small little meta tag with the other a nice big list of bots and files I either do or dont want them to index.

Actually, D.A. is right in that the <a tag rel="nofollow"> does not belong in the robots.txt file or in the metatag and performs a different function.

JTD, you're talking apples and oranges - both are fruits, but from different trees....

FJames wrote:Is there any way to modify it to go through the smiley parser?

Thanks for responding.

Frank

Yah, it could be rewritten - are you just wanting to know where to look to rewrite it? lib/vars.class.php would probably be the first place to look.

My 2 cents.... I see both points as valid. But the validity is flowing in different directions. Spammers may spam for link counts via unsophisticated search engine trackers.... BUT the links like *Viagra* free online trials.com or *Enlarge* your member.com are not trying to get higher rankings in the search engines.... LOL

These types of spam just want click thru traffic and posting anywheres and everywheres using their little bots has nothing to do with ranking higher in the Search Engines

And Hackers, of course, have a different mission -

But the two things that Spammers and Hackers have in common is that they both use the Search Engines to find easy targets to post their advertisements.... (albeit their ads look very different)

Ooooh - I didn't notice that either!!! Thanks!

Magic wrote:Yes I did and no-one else could help me..

I saw that most of the issues did not get any reply.. and some were about the first part.. but no questions about how to use the admin part.

guess I need to look to another script.. I just do not understand anything about this one.. I can not remove wrong links without losing all my links..

thanks anyone for the good help.

Sorry that's kinda the way it is with some of the scripts - some work better thans others - and since everyone here are just people who have used and like one or more of the scripts doesn't mean all the volunteer helpers have used all the scripts. Sorry 'bout that. It is probably just something that needs a little tweeking.

LOL This evolved into a pretty funny thread... Thanks for the laughs!!! LOL

Be sure to patch your guestbook or update - and Keep that HTML Enabled function Turned Off

Once the hackers find you, more will show up on your guestbook doorstep!! And they can still Spam like crazy - so you might want to use Carbonize's Anti-Spam instructions....

Be well

white owl wrote:so would someone please show me how it should look to disable comments and comment icon?

Try this first before actually removing it to see if that is what you really want outta there.

And my recommendation before you actually make any changes is to save a copy of the original entry.php in a file on your harddrive that you can upload at a later date if you change your mind or discover you pulled out too much or some such thing.... I notice that tooooo many folks that post about their problems on here just start changing lines without a good backup plan for fixing their mistakes.

JTD wrote:Did you also put something like this in your index.php file ?
<?php include('/home/xxxxxx/public_html/guestbook/header.php'); ?>
above goes at the top of the index.php and this goes at the bottom.
<?php include('/home/xxxxxx/public_html/guestbook/footer.php'); ?>

Click my guestbook link below. Works like a charm.

Just looking at your guestbook and the guestbook at JSWeb's - your's does not have all the side columns on your "sign the gb" page - JSWeb implied that the columns were wanted for the "sign the gb" page - Not sure why it is wanted, but that's what JSWeb seems to be saying above....

jsweb wrote:I guess I'm not sure how to implement that. The headers and the footers are the same throughout, so why would one page be fine and the next be weird?

Because the tables nest slightly differently from one page to the next.

J.C. wrote:

-Changed the config.inc.php file:

$POLLDB["dbName"] = "Polldb";
$POLLDB["host"] = "mydomain.com";
$POLLDB["user"] = "db user name";
$POLLDB["pass"] = "db password";

Warning: mysql_create_db(): Access denied for user: 'mydomainname@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /home/www/mydomainname/poll/db/install.php on line 668

Warning: mysql_create_db(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/www/mydomainname/poll/db/install.php on line 668

Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /home/www/mydomainname/poll/db/include/class_mysql.php on line 32
Connection Error

Essentially - in a nutshell - you are not addressing the database with the correct information.

IF you have it like this and not the actual information that the database needs, it will not function - I don't know by this whether you actually have it edited it - but don't want to force you to put the info in for security reasons, either - Make certain to have the 'Polldb' exactly the way it shows up in the phpMyAdmin or in your list of tables.

For mydomain.com - sometimes you can get by with using the word 'localhost' for 'mydomain.com' or the server_addr might also be an option.

Make certain to have the correct account id for 'db user name' usually the id you use for logging into your Cpanel unless you created a special db user name and assigned that to the database.

- And of course, the password (either the one for logging into your Cpanel - or - the one you assigned in the database when it was created.)

Keybush - you might try finding carbonize in his forum on his site (check the profile) since he is doing a lot of work over there now in regards to his mods, etc.

jsweb wrote:I was customizing my guestbook. . .

The administration page looks OK too. However, when I hit "sign the guestbook", it's whacked. I'm not an HTML expert by any means, but I get around OK. I've tried and tried to figure out what the problem is, but I'm just hitting a brick wall.

Can you see what I'm missing? I think the problem might be that I don't know much about php. Everything I learned about it, I learned in the past couple hours reading the support forum here!

I sure appreciate any help!

Johann
webmaster@cancun-discounts.com

The problem is in the tables nesting - you may need to extend the side columns for rowspan=2 (off the top of my head - I think that's the term for it).
Looks like you have put a lot of work into it and it looks very nice - but you may not really want to have all the fancy links leading away from your guestbook entry page unless you realllllly don't want people signing your guestbook to begin with....

That's just a thought from another webpage designer

Magic wrote:I just want to know if there is a manual gide how to proceed when you have finished to instal the link script.

It is all working but how do I edit the site so it fits my needs ??

can anyone help me.. I need to get this page done the end of this weekend and I really need some help

No manuals other than what is included with the download - Did you run a search on the forum to see if anyone else has discussed this topic before?

Gudos299 wrote:
Now today I have installed version 2.3.1, and lo and behold my second guestbook visit was unfortunately some stupid boozo again from Turkey who tried to hack it. Now I have become very paranoid. Is this version very secure?

Now the guy who unsuccessfully tried to hack the guestbook today only managed to leave this behind. I was able to delete this gargabe, lame attempt.
Any help, advice !!!

Your guestbook has probably been "googlized" by the hackers/spammers. They will probably continue to come back now that they have found you....

As Carbonize suggests, you should disable html and there are some simple suggestions for spam and some script-edits for guestbook spam that can be found on this forum if you use the search engine to seek them out.

Good luck with this problem.