Guestbook Server V1.1b
Run your own free Guestbook site!
One of the very few FREE Guestbook Servers!
Made by Erics CGI World
http://cgi.ericmarques.net/

V1.1 is fully compatible with older versions of GB Server

*New featured in V1.1b*
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Fixes bugs in signup that shows an error page with no error message defined


*New Features* in V1.1
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Custom HTML Display: Allows guestbook owner to modify the html code that displays his GB
Individual HTML files: All the HTML code used in the script is in the 'html' directory
Allows editing of user information in admin including name, email, password etc...
Updated handling of the 'comments' box to allow a scrolling text box instead of one line
Removed the HTML code ban and changed it so that any html code entered will be converted
to text so it will show the code in the GB
eg. <br> will show as <br> in the comments and not treated as a html line break etc...
Fixed bug with thankyou message sending the message to the guestbook owners email instead of
the person who signs it as supposed to
Fixed bug with the script not automatically CHMOD the thankyou message to 777
This causes problems when trying to edit the message from admin
Added option to use these variables [NAME] [IP] [COMMENTS] [EMAIL] in the thankyou message
Added 'Delete All' in guestbook admin allowing users to delete all comments from their GB


Installation
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Open guestbook.cgi in notepad
Follow editing instructions

You must create a folder anywhere on your site
and CHMOD it to 777 and enter the system path to that
folder in guestbook.cgi

Upload guestbook.cgi & cgi-lib.pl to the same folder
and CHMOD both of them to 755
you must also upload the 'html' directory and enter the
path to the directory in guestbook.cgi
no special permissions needed their just html files

URLS:

To signup for a guestbook on your server
guestbook.cgi?signup

For a user to edit his guestbook
guestbook.cgi?admin

User Management (delete/view user accounts)
Set your password in the script
guestbook.cgi?userman


Modifying HTML Files
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Most html files can be very safely modified
There are however special strict rules for admin.html and guestbook.html
Both of these files have a value you can only see when you view the code
It looks something like
<!--"VALUE"-->
## some HTML code here
<!--"VALUE"-->

You must NOT modify or delete <!--"VALUE"-->
Also take special care when changing whats between the two values
<!--"VALUE"--> indicates that whats between them can be removed by the script depending
In guestbook.cgi whatever is between <!--"GB COMMENTS"--> will be repeated for each comment

Remember that the html file is imported into the script and is NOT run in the html directory
Therefor if you put an image say <img src=image.gif> then you must put image.gif in the same
dir as guestbook.cgi and NOT the html directory


Distribution
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YOU MAY NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISTRIBUTE GUESTBOOK.CGI
You can however freely distribute the .html files for new designs/translations etc...
Please send traslations or nice designs for html files to gbserver@ericmarques.net

