Cannot get manual approval of new posts to work

[k0065126]

Script URL: http://pyner.org.uk/GuestBook/gbook.php
Version of script: 1.7
Hosting company: Supanames (http://www.supanames.co.uk/)
URL of phpinfo.php: http://pyner.org.uk/GuestBook/phpinfo/phpinfo.php
URL of session_test.php: http://pyner.org.uk/GuestBook/session_t ... n_test.php
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The guest book works correctly if I do not set $settings['notify'] to 1 to allow me to vet each posting. If I set this variable to 1 I get an e-mail with two links and whichever one I click on I am sent to an error page from my ISP, not the one I uploaded to my web site.

This is one link which means nothing to me :-
http://results.ispconnect.co.uk/main?Ad ... archQuery=

I have no idea where the problem might be and hope that someone can help me solve it. I did run phpinfo and this suggests that I am using version 5.2.10 of php, and the session_test script suggests that there is no problem there, (I get the result $_SESSION['test'] is set to: TRUE).

Viv

PS. This new version of the script looks very good.

[Henrie]

Hello Viv,

The mail you get should contain links like this

Hello!

A new guestbook entry is waiting approval.

Name: henrie
From:
E-mail:
Website:
Message (without smileys):
test approval

To APPROVE the entry visit this URL:
http://www.mydomain.com/gbook17/gbook.p ... prove&do=1

To REJECT the entry visit this URL:
http://www.mydomain.com/gbook17/gbook.p ... prove&do=0

End of message

I don't know any reason why you should have a link like that

This is one link which means nothing to me :-
http://results.ispconnect.co.uk/main?Ad ... archQuery=

Or is this the resulting link when you have clicked one of the links in the mail?

The only problem i can think of is that the folder apptmp inside your Guestbook folder is not writable (chmod 777) and therefor the message to approve can not be found.

Greetings,
henrie

[Klemen]

You have the wrong URL for $settings['gbook_url'] set in your settings.php file. You probably have:

http://www.pyner.org/GuestBook/gbook.php

but it should be:

http://www.pyner.org.uk/GuestBook/gbook.php

(note that you have ".uk" missing in the domain name)

[k0065126]

Thanks to Henrie & Klemen for the quick response.

I knew it was probably me doing something silly, and I was right. Amending the $settings['gbook_url'] has solved the problem.

Henrie, the link I posted was what came in the browser when I clicked on the link in the e-mail. My apologies for not making that clear in my post.

I am now very happy.

Viv

[ulysse75010]

I've got no notification that a new message has been posted though I filled correctly the file "settings.php"

[ulysse75010]

After trying Gbook I tried Mboard, with which I get a message, when I click on the link, the message 1.html is blank

[lotuscott]

Now that I've got my email notification problem worked out, I have a new one. When, as temp administrator, I went to approve a new post, this is the message I received:
Can't open entries file for reading! CHMOD this file to 666 (rw-rw-rw) and make sure your host allows PHP scripts to read from local files!

[Henrie]

Can you try if you can post a message without manual approval?
And can you post a link to phpinfo.php file?
Read about chmod in http://www.phpjunkyard.com/ftp-chmod-tutorial.php
If you are on a windows server you can not use chmod but must use the windows management software to assign write permissions.

Greetings,
Henrie

[Klemen]

Like Henrie said make sure the entries.txt file is writable by the script (for CHMOD check the tutorial). Check with your host if unsure.