E mail remains private...not shown on board can we do this?

[Rufanuf]

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Version of script:1.3
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Ive maanged to install the mboard...im just a but concerned of the security of visitors, them not being able to keep there email private. Is there an option for turning off the visible Email...I could not see it anywhere, I noticed someone asked a similar quest a long way back on this forum, they didnt get an answer.

Can we switch off emails being displayed?

Thanks

Ruf

[Klemen]

As a quick solution you can try changing (inside mboard.php)

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    if(!empty($_POST['email']))
    {
        $email=pj_input($_POST['email']);
            if(!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/",$email))
            {
                problem('Please enter a valid e-mail address!');
            }
        $char = array('.','@');
        $repl = array(".","@");
        $email=str_replace($char,$repl,$email);
    }
    else {$email='NO';}

to

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$email='NO';

This won't show the e-mail but it also won't provide any way of viewing it. That would take a bit more work, will try to think of something for the next version.

[icepack]

hi, i was after this too.
still waiting for the next release. will it be soon? thanks

[Klemen]

Can't really say when, I hoped February at first but had other work (updated my other scripts though). That's why I don't like giving any dates as I really can't say when I will work on any of the scripts.

[Weird Dragon]

As a quick solution you can try changing (inside mboard.php)

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to

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$email='NO';

This won't show the e-mail but it also won't provide any way of viewing it. That would take a bit more work, will try to think of something for the next version.

I have just installed mboard and decided to disable the email option. I changed the code as mentioned above, but found that the box for typing the email was still there and if you typed a letter in there you would get a message prompting you to write a valid email address. So I decided to find out how to remove the input text box.

So besides doing what Klemen suggested I also did the following:

In the file "mboard.php" I replaced this line

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E-mail (optional):<br><input type=text name="email" size=30 maxlength=50>

with this one

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<br>

because I found out that an extra new line was a good idea once the text input box was removed.

Note that the line appears two times in the script, so I replaced it both times with <br>.

EDIT: I removed those extra <br> as it turned out that it disturbed the layout.

Then in the file "javascript.js" I deleted this part:

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if (
    d.email.value!='' && (
      d.email.value.indexOf(".") == -1 ||
      d.email.value.indexOf("@") == -1
    )
) {alert('Please enter a valid e-mail address!'); return false;}

I know nothing about php and java scripting. My only programming experience, apart from a small knowledge of html, is GML (Game Maker Language) which is a language that only works in the program called Game Maker. But because I have that experience I could recognize the "script patterns" and conclude what to do. What I did was searching in the scripts for matters concerned about email and testing over and over. It works very well as far as I can see.

In the file "style.css" I changed a colour of a font:

This part:

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A {
	color : #0084BE;
	text-decoration : underline;
}

I changed into this one:

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A {
	color : Navy;
	text-decoration : underline;
}

Here you can see the result:
http://www.weird-dragon.dk/mboard/mboard.php

I have removed all my testing messages and written a new welcome message.

As you can see I have also worked quite a bit with the "header.txt" file and the "footer.txt" file. I made those header and footer files in a "Drag and Drop" interface html program and then I copied the source code into the header and footer text files.