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Guest book

The Guest book option adds a simple Flash-based visitors comment feature with rating possibility.

Notes

- The Guest book will not work from the local disk, only from a server, because it stores it's entries through a server-based PHP scriptlet. So you might see the guest book — even can add a new entry, but it will not be saved.
- To be able to add entries on a server the /guestbook folder need to be write-enabled.
  — Use CHMOD 775 command from the shell. Some servers might need 777 setting.
  — or change it with an FTP client (e.g. Right click + Properties + Owner/Group/Public - Read/Write/Execute: Yes).
  — or you can use the integrated cPanel or other server configuration tool to change premissions too.
  — For myJalbum.net you need to use and Secure FTP client, like WinSCP to set the correct folder permissions, 777.
- You need to have permission to run PHP scripts on your web-server. It is usually enabled for paid web-services, but often not available with free web providers. Consult your server documentation/staff if this is enabled.
- If your site is hosted on a Windows server Microsoft IIS server need to be configured properly to make the guestbook work. Go the to Home DIrectory tab for the web site then select configuration. Scroll down to the .PHP extention and make sure that the path to the PHP exe is like this "C:\Program files\PHP\php-cgi.exe" NOT the c:\progra~1 etc. that the PHP installer uses — it does not work.

Position

- Omit — no guestbook will be added to the page
- Top — the guestbook will be added above the thumbnails on the index page and above the main image on slide page.
- Bottom — the guestbook is added at the bottom.

Size

The size of the Guest book in pixels. By default it is 60px narrower than the image width, and has a taller version on index pages.

Rating

The rating features makes it possible for the visitors to add rating to their comments in the range of 1..5, but they still can post their message without rating. The guest book will display the average rating in this case.

Only on top level

The Guest book on Index pages can be disabled for the subdirectories and only display for the top level.

Font size

The default font size is 12 for the guestbook, but you can customize this setting

Highlight color

The color of comments is the same as the page's base text color, but you can have any color for the user name and rating.

Entries per page

By default 20 entries are displayed on one page but you can make the number higher here. Entries above cca. 100 might slow down loading the page.

Ascending order

You can choose to display the messages in ascending (first message on top) or descending (latest message on top) order. Visitors can change this order too — this option controls only the initial sorting.

Email notification

Would you like to get noticed when someone has posted a new message? Turn this option on, fill in the Email address field, and you'll receive an email notification every time a visitor adds a new comment.

Note, that the link to the file in the email will only work if you have used only alphanumeric characters [A-Z,a-z,0-9,'-'] in folder and file names. This is because the guestbook file has been already filtered for non web-safe characters, and it's not always possible to reconstruct the original path of this.