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Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:03 am**

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1)Why do I get this text?

http://www.moshiachforkids.com/gbook/gbook.php?a=sign

and then there is an error cannot sign up at this moment

2) can i add a column in the "view post" table
so that it does not look too crowded between the submitted by column
and the comments column

3)how can i add space between each posting.
They seem to run one into the other without any spacing

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:53 am**

Hello Mirnot,

First of I want to say that you should start by using GBook version 1.43 instead of Gbook version 1.41 that you are now trying to set up.

1.
The Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by is normally get when people put their own header in the header.txt file. But your header.txt file is empty. Maybe you have edited the gbook.php file and added a <head>...</head> section? You should not edit your own head section but rather modify the one that is already present in the gbook.php file.

The other error:
Seems like you are having problems with sessions, please upload this file to your server (the php files inside the zip files) and post a link to them here, might give some clues: http://www.phpjunkyard.com/extras/phpinfo.zip
And also this one: http://www.phpjunkyard.com/extras/session_test.zip

2.
Yes you can. I can see you have already tried but did not succeed (yet).
You can also add a class style to the <td> that holds the name e-mail etc. and than in style.css enter a right padding for that class.

3.
By ending the table of the entry and start a new one for the next entry.
Now there are only new table rows started but not new tables. This would require editing the gbook.php file. I don't have time right now to get into more details as to where exactly you should edit the code, but maybe later today.

Greetings,
Henrie

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:18 pm**

The whole thing went wrong after i added a column!!!

I did try to change the text Comments on the view page to another word could that be the problem

here are the links

http://www.moshiachforkids.com/gbook/session_test.php
http://www.moshiachforkids.com/gbook/session_test2.php

http://www.moshiachforkids.com/gbook/phpinfo.php

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:59 pm**

Then a guess you made an error when you added the column.

The test pages are all good, I don't see any problems there. Also posting works, so you don't have problems with sessions after all.

Did you get errors with the original guestbook? I guess not. I think you have changed something incorrectly and this as you mentioned caused the errors.
The only advice I can give you (and I don't think you are going to like it) is starting again with the original gbook.php file (preferably version 1.43 because it has a better spam filter and better navigation).
Than before modifying safe the working Gbook, modify one thing, see if it
works, if it doesn't work revert to the previous last safed that worked. And so on (that's how i modify my Gbooks).

Than your requested modifications
I post line numbers for gbook.php file version 1.43 as I think you should be using this version (version 1.41 is basically the same with other line numbers). When you start changing beware that if you add lines, line numbers change. The line numbers I mention are from the unchanged gbook.php file.

2) can i add a column in the "view post" table so that it does not look too crowded between the submitted by column and the comments column.

Adding a column (i will not give the css solution as it is a little more work because new classes have to be made to reference to from the stylesheet).
Find the following lines (782 and 783)

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<td class="upper" width="35%"><b>Submitted by</b></td>
<td class="upper" width="65%"><b>Comments:</b></td>

and change it to

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<td class="upper" width="35%"><b>Submitted by</b></td>
<td class="upper" width="15%">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="upper" width="50%"><b>Comments:</b></td>

This is for the blue header line.
Then the same for the part where the entry is (lines 802 and 803)

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</td>
<td valign="top" width="65%">

and change it to

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</td>
<td valign="top" width="15%">&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top" width="50%">

Now you have added a column to the "view post" table.
To change the text Comments:, which you say started the problems, you only change the text in line 783

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<td class="upper" width="65%"><b>Comments:</b></td>

to for example

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<td class="upper" width="65%"><b>Message:</b></td>

3)how can i add space between each posting.
They seem to run one into the other without any spacing

Adding the space by introducing multiple tables:
Find lines 203-215

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echo '</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="95%" class="entries">';

if ($total == 0) {
	echo '
    <tr>
        <td>No entries yet!</td>
    </tr>
    ';
}
else {printEntries($lines,$start,$end);}

echo '</table>';

and change it to

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echo '</p>
';

if ($total == 0) {
	echo '
    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="95%" class="entries">
    <tr>
        <td>No entries yet!</td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    ';
}
else {printEntries($lines,$start,$end);}

Then find line 781 (for reference the text: function printEntries($lines,$start,$end) { can be found at line 771)

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<tr>

and change it to

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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="95%" class="entries"><tr>

Then find line 830

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</tr>

and change it to

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</tr></table>

To get a space between the tables of the entries you can change line 830 to

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</tr></table><br>

or you can change the style.css file and add margin-bottom: 10px; to the table.entries {...} section. It would look something like

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table.entries {
	color : black;
	font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	BORDER-RIGHT: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-LEFT: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-TOP: #23559C 1px solid;
	BORDER-BOTTOM: #23559C 1px solid;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
}

I hope this helps you and I wish you success with editing your gbook.

Greetings,
Henrie

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:29 pm**

Thanks for the code
I wil try them

Bot how do i get rid of the errors when Ioad the page. Is it only by downloading a new version?

Posted: **Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:39 pm**

When you use the standard (unmodified) version of GBook you should not get any error messages no matter what version you use.

These errors in most occasions only occur when someone edits the gbook.php file wrong. Or puts a <head>..</head> section in the header.txt file. Or when the server does not support certain php functions properly.

But you have already edited your gbook.php file so I can not know what errors you get with a standard GBook.
If you get errors with an unedited gbook than please put an unedited gbook on your server and let us see what errors you get. Then we can try to resolve these first before you start editing any files (except ofcourse the settings.php file which you should correctly set up).

Greetings,
Henrie