It stores all information into a plain-text file, therefore it does not require a database engine.
Installation:
Unpack the archive
Open the settings.php file in a plain text editor and edit the required variables.
Upload the files to a directory on the webserver
CHMOD the banned_ip.txt and entries.txt files to 666
Point a browser to the gbook.php location to test it
Here are some key features of "GBook":
· Process smileys
· Send e-mail notification when someone signs the guestbook
· Visitors can post private guest book messages which only the webmaster can read.
· IP banning
· XHTML valid code
· A bad words filter which replaces all bad words with **** in new posts
· A secuirty switch which prevents flooding (submiting the same message multiple times)
· Built-in protection against guestbook SPAM
· Encodes e-mail addresses to prevent SPAM harvesters from finding them.
· Customizable look (by editing header, footer and style files)
Requirements:
· PHP 4.3.x or higher
· FTP access and a FTP program
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New user interface (new tableless design, new style.css file, images have alt and title tags, valid XHTML).
· All HTML code has been moved to templates (easier to modify, share templates, add new emoticons, ...).
· Improved JunkMark anti-SPAM filter.
· New anti-SPAM feature: a customized anti-SPAM logical question.
· Improved Captcha anti-SPAM image.
· Can now manually approve new posts.
· Can limit length of Comments.
· Can limit the number of Emoticons (Smileys) per post.
· Customers can receive an e-mail notification when administrator replies to their post.
· Removed go.php file (didn't really serve it's initial purpose).
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