Private post. Click to view.

[Raidersguy]

When you submit a reply to a posting I find the original comments disappear and are replaced by Private post. Click to view. Is this correct as I assumed that the guestbook owner could add a message to the original comments any has anyone else had this.

[Klemen]

That shouldn't happen unless the post already was private. Have you been editing gbook.php?

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[Henrie]

He probably has been editing the gbook (see this post viewtopic.php?t=1038).
But he probably has done something wrong, I warned him in my post that some fields are used for very specific tasks that have been coded in gbook.
He posted a reply afterwards in which he asked what he should edit. Later when I wanted to reply, the post was deleted so I did not have the chance to reply.
My guess is that he found what he should edit. But according to this post he has done it the wrong way.

Greetings,
Henrie

[Raidersguy]

Hi guys yes I have edited the book, sorry for the delay but I have been fighting with it for 2 days now.
What consumes the time is uploading and testing it on the server.
I found that the message “Private post. Click to view” appears due to my own fault of adding an extra field, also other problems which is connected with this are other fields eg web address, swooping with email address, I am really struggling to add another felid, I feel the problem is when writing to the log file and the guestbook reading the information and display the fields incorrectly, has anyone successfully added a field if so I would really appreciate a look at your gbook.php file.

[Henrie]

Hello Raidersguy,

Here's a step by step description on how to add an extra field.
The changes and line numbers are for the original GBook version 1.43.
The newfield I have introduced is named newfield1
Where the name of the field is printed in the guestbook I have used the name newfield1_name, this can be changed to whatever you want.

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        $name=gbook_input($_POST['name']);
        $from=gbook_input($_POST['from']);
        $a=check_mail_url(); $email=$a['email']; $url=$a['url'];
        $comments=gbook_input($_POST['comments']);
        $isprivate=gbook_input($_POST['private']);

        if ($isprivate) {$sign_isprivate='checked';}
        if ($_REQUEST['nosmileys']) {$sign_nosmileys='checked';}

        if (empty($name))
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Please enter your name');
        }
        if ($email=='INVALID')
        {
            printSign($name,$from,'',$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Enter a valid e-mail address or leave it empty');
        }
        if ($url=='INVALID')
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,'',$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Enter a valid website address or leave it empty');
        }
        if (empty($comments))
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Please enter your comments');
        }

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        $name=gbook_input($_POST['name']);
        $from=gbook_input($_POST['from']);
        $a=check_mail_url(); $email=$a['email']; $url=$a['url'];
        $comments=gbook_input($_POST['comments']);
        $isprivate=gbook_input($_POST['private']);
        $newfield1=gbook_input($_POST['newfield1']);
        if ($isprivate) {$sign_isprivate='checked';}
        if ($_REQUEST['nosmileys']) {$sign_nosmileys='checked';}

        if (empty($name))
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Please enter your name');
        }
        if ($email=='INVALID')
        {
            printSign($name,$from,'',$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Enter a valid e-mail address or leave it empty');
        }
        if ($url=='INVALID')
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,'',$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Enter a valid website address or leave it empty');
        }
        if (empty($comments))
        {
            printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Please enter your comments');
        }

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printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Please enter the security number');

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printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Please enter the security number');

and change (line 108)

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printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,'Wrong security number');

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printSign($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$sign_nosmileys,$sign_isprivate,$newfield1,'Wrong security number');

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addEntry($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate);

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addEntry($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate,$newfield1);

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function print_secimg($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate,$message=0) {

to

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function print_secimg($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate,$newfield1,$message=0) {

Add (after line 383, which is the following line)

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<input type="hidden" name="private" value="<?php echo $isprivate; ?>">

the following code (it does not have to be at that line exactly but must be somewhere in that paragraph with the other "hidden" input fields)

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<input type="hidden" name="newfield1" value="<?php echo $newfield1; ?>">

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list($name,$from,$email,$url,$comment,$added,$isprivate,$reply)=explode($delimiter,$lines[$num]);

to (notice that ,$ip,$newfield1 is added and not only $newfield)

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list($name,$from,$email,$url,$comment,$added,$isprivate,$reply,$ip,$newfield1)=explode($delimiter,$lines[$num]);

Add after (starting at line 448)

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if ($email)
{
	echo '<font class="smaller">E-mail:</font> <a href="mailto:'.$email.'" target="_blank" class="smaller">'.$email.'</a>';
}

the following code (it can also be placed before the previous lines of code, depending on where you want the field to be displayed in the private messages)

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if ($newfield1)
{
	echo '<font class="smaller">newfield1_name: '.$newfield1.'</font><br>';
}

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function addEntry($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate="0") {

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function addEntry($name,$from,$email,$url,$comments,$isprivate="0",$newfield1) {

Change (line 632), these are the fields that are added to the entries.txt file

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$addline = $name.$delimiter.$from.$delimiter.$email.$delimiter.$url.$delimiter.$comments.$delimiter.$added.$delimiter.$isprivate.$delimiter.'0'.$delimiter.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\n";

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$addline = $name.$delimiter.$from.$delimiter.$email.$delimiter.$url.$delimiter.$comments.$delimiter.$added.$delimiter.$isprivate.$delimiter.'0'.$delimiter.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].$delimiter.$newfield1."\n";

Add a new line somewhere in this code (starting at line 651)

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Name: $name
From: $from
E-mail: $email
Website: $url

with the following code (this is adding the new field to the notifying mail)

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newfield1_name: $newfield1

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function printSign($name='',$from='',$email='',$url='',$comments='',$nosmileys='',$isprivate='',$error='') {

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function printSign($name='',$from='',$email='',$url='',$comments='',$nosmileys='',$isprivate='',$newfield1='',$error='') {

Add after (starting at line 713)

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<tr>
<td>Your e-mail:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" size="30" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"></td>
</tr>

The following code can also be added before that piece of code but has to be an entire table row ( <tr>...</tr> ). This is the field in the "sign guestbook" page

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<tr>
<td>newfield1_name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="newfield1" size="30" maxlength="50" value="<?php echo $newfield1; ?>"></td>
</tr>

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list($name,$from,$email,$url,$comment,$added,$isprivate,$reply)=explode($delimiter,$lines[$i]);

to (notice that ,$ip,$newfield1 is added and not only $newfield)

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list($name,$from,$email,$url,$comment,$added,$isprivate,$reply,$ip,$newfield1)=explode($delimiter,$lines[$i]);

Add after (starting at line 796)

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if ($email)
{
	echo '<font class="smaller">E-mail:</font> <a href="mailto:'.$email.'" target="_blank" class="smaller">'.$email.'</a><br>';
}

the following code (it can also be placed before that code, depending on where you want the line with the new field to be displayed in the guestbook)

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if ($newfield1)
{
	echo '<font class="smaller">newfield1_name: '.$newfield1.'</font><br>';
}

This should be everything and works in my test guestbook.
I just hope I have not made an error when I added all this to this forum.

Greetings,
Henrie

[Raidersguy]

Absolutely brilliant Henrie that’s really nice of you, I will give it a go and get back to you

[Raidersguy]

Hello Henrie totally successful many thanks, your help was very very much appreciated.