DigiOz Guestbook Change Log

[Pete]

Features

• Flat file data storage for ease of setup
• Header and Footer files allow you to customize it to fit your web site
• Image verification to prevent spam from automated bots from posting
• IP blocking for protection from spammers
• Administrative area for deleting entries and monitoring the IP of spammers
• Support of an unlimited number of languages using Language file generator
• Smiley face support for guestbook entries posted
• Styling support for bold, underline, italic font and centered text
• Search feature to search through guestbook entries
• Sorting capability for sorting entries by oldest or newest entry
• Ability to make the email, name or message fields optional
• Admin email notification for messages posted (optional)
• Flood protection to prevent users from posting spam posts over and over
• Referring URL Check to make sure spam bots do not auto submit messages
• Bad word filter which can be customized to filter out any bad word
• More features to come!

Version 1.1:
- Option of the display New Entries First (on top of page) added
- Option to display New Entries Last (bottom of page) added
- Problem with displaying double and single quotes fixed
- HTML insertion in the body of guestbook entries has been disabled
- Smilie Face feature added to convert to smiley images.
- Default table background color changed from gray to white.
- Each Guestbook Entry is now stored on a new line in the list.txt file(Data Storage Change)

[Pete]

Version 1.2:
- System dynamically breaks guestbook entries into pages.
- You can choose how many guestbook entries per page you would like to view.
- Some display formatting was done on the file add.php to allow better viewing of results.

[Pete]

Version 1.3:
-Your Name entered will now have to be 40 or less characters.
-Your Email entered will now have to be 40 or less characters.
-You will have to entere an email address in the proper format
for the scrip to add the entry to the guestbook.
-Any words longer then 25 characters will now be broken up, to
avoid the resizing of the table with of the guestbook by odd
length word entries.

[Pete]

Version 1.4:
- Language files included for guestbook for the following languages:
- English
- German
- Dutch
- Philippino
- JavaScript Smiley insertion buttons added to the entry add form
- UBB Code added for BOLD, UNDERLINED, ITALIC, and CENTER formatting
of text entered in the guestbook

[Pete]

Version 1.5:
- Language files included for guestbook for the following languages were added:
- Danish
- Swedish
- Greek
- Email notification of administator was added.
- Option added for making Email, Name and/or Message optional.
- All configuration adjustments can now be made from config.php file.
- All functions moved to the "functions.php" file for easier inclusion.
- New PHP file "index.php" was added which redirects visitor to the entry fom. It aslo
Provides additional security by not allowing visitors to access the guestbook directory.
- GNU License was added to the script in order to make this code officially open source.
- HTML tags are now disabled in Name field

[Pete]

Version 1.6:
- Bad word filter was added to the guestbook system.
- Messsage flooding prevention was added to the system.
- German Language file translation corrected.

[Pete]

Version 1.7:
- Guestbook Entries are now stored as OBJECTS into the text file (Pete).
- New Administrative Interface Allows Admin to Delete Guestbook Entries Safely (Pete).
- Some bug fixes on the code thanks to Mike (mr pain) and Robbert (Thank you both).
- New Search Feature Added, which allows searching by any entry field (Thanks Mike).
- Language File generator form now allows admin to create their own wording for language.
- Option added to log visitor IP and Spammer IP Number and address.
- Ban option added based on visitor's IP Number.
- Spam block feature added based on keyword specified by admin in config.php file.
- Added Optional Image Verification Feature using GD library to avoid spam.

[bjland2]

hi, pete, i agree with you and thanks very much for your infomation.

[Pete]

Version 1.7.3:

add.php - Added additional sanitization to the log write code
config.php - moved the Guestbook version into this file
footer.php - Removed the version of the Guestbook from this file to make it more difficult for hackers to identify the guestbook version.
sanitize.php - Adds additional data sanitization functions to prevent XSS and script injection and remove special characters.
search.php - Added additional data sanitation check to this file and fixed the paging issue.
changelog.log - Removed this file and combined it with ReadMe.txt file for ease of

Note - For upgrade instructions from previous version 1.7.2 to 1.7.3 please read THIS thread.

Thanks,
Pete