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Advanced Guestbook Documentation Available?

martin_uboo — GMT

Hi, I'm new to this Guestbook program. I just installed AG 2.3.1 via my hosts cPanel. It seems to have installed fine.

I was wondering if any documentation is available. I searched this forum, but only found a few old post asking for documentation.

I have a few customization questions and a problem with the email notification feature.

Thank you!

martin

Carbonize — GMT

Feel free to ask your questions in here or in my sites forum.

2 questions

martin_uboo — GMT

Thanks Carbonize! Are you the developer? I see your name all over answering questions.

2 Questions:

1. The email notification function works for the webmaster address, but not to the guest. I have it checked in "General Settings" > "Email Options" > "send email to guest".

2. Which template contains the text at the top of the main guestbook page > "Thank you for stopping by my site. Here you can leave your mark.". I want to modify that and I haven't found it yet.

Thanks in advance!

martin

Carbonize — GMT

No i am not the developer. As to your questions.

1 - Dunno, so long as they are leavng an email address they should receive notification.

2 - Look in lang/english.php. Most messages are stored i nthere and can be altered.

martin_uboo — GMT

Hi Carbonize,

I hope you are still monitoring this thread.

Question: I found the lang/english.php file and it does contain the messages I want to change. However, I'm totally new to php and I tried to edit that file and whenever I do, it corrupts the file and breaks all the image paths and messages inserts too. This really breaks the guestbook's looks!

I just uninstalled the guestbook and reinstalled (it was blank except for tests) and all is fine. I tried to edit the file on the server, this time (after backing up the file), it broke it again. I was able to restore the backup file and all is OK.

I am trying to find out the correct way to edit php files, but so far I haven't found any special handling instructions.

I have tried to edit in Windows Notepad and UltraEdit32 (file downloaded via WS_FTP Pro in Passive Mode) and to edit on the server via the WS_FTP "Edit" feature which utilizes Notebook.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Carbonize — GMT

You are aware that Ultraedit has a built in FTP client? Personally I prefer [url=http://www.pspad.com]PS Pad[/url] which is a FREE Ultraedit clone but with, in my opinion anyway, a better built in FTP client. You say the file is getting corrupted? Can you elaborate. Are you getting any error messages?

martin_uboo — GMT

Thanks for your prompt reply.

When I say corrupted, I mean the resulting changes to the guestbook look wrong. For instance, all the image paths lose the base URL and look something like (from memory) http://img/whatever_name.gif. Also the inserted message text disappears after I edited on the server.

Isn't a php file just a text file and can be treated as such?

If you want, I can "break" the guestbook again and let you look at it.

Thanks!

Carbonize — GMT

That would probably be the best idea. That and post the changes you made to english.php. Yes a PHP file is just a text file. You can even email your english.php file to me as this is obviously the problem. As to the images edit the base_url part in the admin/config.inc.php file.

martin_uboo — GMT

Hi Carbonize.

I downloaded and installed PSPad and it's great. I edited the lang/english.php file via the ftp function and it worked great! Maybe it was a problem with WS_FTP or the other editors. When I first opened the file in UltraEdit, it asked me if I wanted to convert the non=DOS file to DOS and I said no.

As far as the image path is concerned, it changes (loses the base URL) whenever I edited just the english.php file. It's OK now after the PSPad edit.

If you want to see the corrupted file, I saved it and can send it to you (at your hotmail address?). Let me know if you want to see it.

Thank you again for all your help!!

martin_uboo — GMT

PS. re: my previous email guest notification problem, it turns out to only be a problem when I use an email address hosted at the same hosting company (different domain). I can send email direct from the guestbook (domain) host to the other commonly hosted domains with no problem, but when I send via the guestbook email guest notification script, it disappears (no bounce). The hosting company is trying to figure this one out now.

Thanks again!!

Carbonize — GMT

Glad it's all sorted out now. Hope you didn't pay for Ultraedit.

martin_uboo — GMT

Thanks again Carbonize! No I hadn't paid for UltraEdit, it was a gift.

I have run into another problem.

When I insert an image into my guestbook post and try to preview it, I get this error message:[quote]Warning: copy(/home/usatro2/public_html/guestbook/tmp/img-1107116473.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/usatro2/public_html/guestbook/lib/add.class.php on line [/quote]
The first time I got this error, I backed out of the preview screen, re-entered the image file path (it was blank after returning) and submitted and the post was fine.

I tried a second time and when I previewed, I got a similar error message (different file name), but then I submitted from the preview screen and got an errror screen that redirected back to the guestbook and the post was there, but the image wasn't (no even a missing image graphic).

Here is a link to the error screen link > [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/martin_uboo/guestbook_screenshot_1_large.jpg]screenshot[/url].

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

PS. Is there a way to increase the size of the email the guest is sent. It appears to be limited to about 144 characters.