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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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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!

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

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.