gBook Wish List

[rarmy]

As I've been playing around on the 3 gbook's I have running...I have come up with this wish list, and figured this was the best place to post it...

I Wish... that the HL Mods are already incorporated in v1.8 so I don't have to mod 3 diff gbooks...

I Wish... that when I select "Make From" or "Email" mandatory, it will auto bold the fields, and turn off when not selected, thus not having to manually mod 3 diff gbooks...

I Wish... that there was an "Admin" mode that the guest wouldn't see, have to only log in once, and do all the admin stuff at one time. I don't like the guest seeing the "Delete", "Reply", and "IP" icon, it's something that tempts the guest to click on, and a target for a hacker to get past. Would be nice that in "Admin" mode, the all the email addresses would not be hidden...

I am NOT a programmer, and probably don't know what is involved to implement the "Wish List" but I can at least dream, can't I...have another drink...

[Klemen]

Some of your wishes are already included in my 1.8 development, for others will see - won't give any promises or guarantees

[Henrie]

Klemen, you make me curious about the new version.
I remember that I had some problems with changing some styles through the style.css file because they are hardcoded in the script (or related files). I hope you will change that.

Also I am curious what new functions will be included.
I agree that an admin page would be nice. Especially for deleting multiple spam entries (although I know it might be tricky with the current delete function because the posts do not have a unique id but rely on the line number).

Greetings,
Henrie

[rarmy]

OK, somebody actually signed my main guestbook (WooHoo!!!). He was a former student, and he made the post "Private"...OK...No problem...but when I commented back, i.e. "admin comment", it's public. If the post is private, shouldn't the admin response also be private???

Also, as I have:

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/* Use "Your website" field? 1 = YES, 0 = NO */
$settings['use_url']=1;

/* Open URLs in a new window? 1 = YES, 0 = NO */
$settings['url_blank']=1;

how hard would it be to also add an option to turn off the "rel="nofollow" that gbook.php auto adds,

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			$url = '<a href="'.$url.'" class="gbook_submitted" '.$settings['target'].' rel="nofollow">'.$url.'</a>';
		}

thus allow someone to actually click on and follow the link?? To my thinking, the "Open URL in a new window" is useless and ignored as long as the "rel="nofollow" is hard-coded. I have looked all through the settings.php and still find no option to enable/disable the "nofollow"...I only found it by "viewing source" and had to do a word search on the whole gbook dir to find the file it's set on...

[Klemen]

@Henrie: I won't be making any huge changes, just fixing some little bugs and few new things like "remember admin password". Yes, the problem with admin panel / multiple removal is the fact that posts don't have IDs. Will check for hard-coded CSS, if you had any special problems you had feel free to let me know.

@Rarmy: the problem is that if admin reply is private no one but you (not even the original poster) can see it hence it must be public.

The rel="nofollow" doesn't have anything to do with clicking links - links work normally. This tag only tells search engines not to follow links and for example send any pagerank to the link. Helps in anti-SPAM war.

[rarmy]

@Rarmy: the problem is that if admin reply is private no one but you (not even the original poster) can see it hence it must be public.

Huh...that makes sense...

The rel="nofollow" doesn't have anything to do with clicking links - links work normally. This tag only tells search engines not to follow links and for example send any pagerank to the link. Helps in anti-SPAM war.

I swear that before I deleted the entry, was unable to click on and follow links...as I put it back in today...works fine...sigh...if I didn't have so much on this computer, would just slick it and do a refresh...Oh'well... life goes on...thanks.