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Hi--
I'm new to this product through SimpleScripts and probably this has all been hashed out, but for saving your cpu time, I have a few basic questions about guestbook.

I thought I was reading that you should change permissions to 644, but why wouldn't you want to change them to 711 on all the php scripts? They still seem to work fine in my environment.

I wondered why one couldn't make a copy of gbook.php and name it something like admingbook.php, and modify gbook.php to exclude links to ip and email addresses, then you really would have your own admin interface, in a way. I don't like the links on there for my users, since they can't use them anyway. I got the Contact link off but can't get rid of the header that says "Email:" but at least its blank afterwards. I want to do the same with the ip button.

Also, can we remove the "Install gbook" link but leave the rest on there because you have the links below.

And, if I pay to have the links removed, should I do it now before anyone posts? Do I get better security for the paid version? Do I get the separate admin and user interface with the paid version and will my hosting site let me use it? Will the money cover these questions?

Thanks for any help in advance.
Georgia

[Klemen]

1) You can use whatever permissions work on your server (usually the default ones do), just make sure the files that need to be writable (such as the entries.txt) have correct permissions, usually 666 works.

2) Feel free to make a copy and edit the original gbook.php one. Just make sure you modify all the instances of "gbook.php" inside the copied script to for example "admingbook.php"

3) There is no "install gbook" link in the original GBook. You can and should get the original one from here, I can't give any guarantees for modified versions:
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/php-guestbook-script.php

4) A license can be purchased and installed at any time. It's as simple as uploading one file to your guestbook and it doesn't change any existing settings or posts. All the license does is removes the "Powered by" links, the rest is the same as with the free version.

[gacphp]

Thanks, Klemen. It was so easy to get it up and running. I found out that the install link (which was also with a web hosting link) came from simplescripts and my host). I don't really mind the other links but may pay for them, the cost is so little--as a retired programmer I know I like getting paid. Also, can I encrypt the txt file to protect the email address info in there with an outside encryption program or do I not need to worry about it? I could write a cron job to copy and truncate the thing to a protected directory and have the admin scripts read from the truncated copy, or write to two files, one contains the email address and IP or whatever protected info I want and the other doesn't, since I'm not displaying, then have the gbook read from it. I'm getting it.

You scripts are good, thanks and they are clean and the product design is logical. Nice to know someone cares about structured programming-- a lost art.

Thanks, Will

[Klemen]

Glad you like it.

To hide the entries file you can simply rename it to a hard to guess name (like "sDP84_s77kl234_UTas862-eras3.txt") and update the $settings['logfile'] setting inside the settings.php file to reflect the correct file name.