PloneGuestbook

Warning

This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.

A simple Plone product

Project Description

Development discontinued - alternative solution for Plone 4

 The developers can't afford the time to upgrade the product to current Plone releases. An alternative solution is presented in the documentation section:

How to build your own guestbook

 

Here is still the old product:

A simple Guestbook for Plonesites. The release 0.6.1 allows to use the great PloneCaptcha tool to prevent the ugly spamming guys to fill up your guestbook with useless entries. With release 0.6.2 the manager can easily identify and delete unwanted entries in the new "Edit Guestbook" view. The release 0.6.3 aims for Plone 3.x.x compatibility.

You need PloneCaptcha 1.0, which will not run on Plone 2.0.5. PloneGuestbook 0.6.x is backward compatible and will also run if PloneCaptcha is not installed. Just disable the 'captcha' option in the ZMI: portal_properties/ploneguestbook_properties.

Contributers

K. Misner [kay (at) misner (dot) de]
E. Ehmke [eggert (dot) ehmke (at) berlin (dot) de]

Installation of the old style product

• unzip it into the product folder of your instance and install it with the portal_quickinstaller.

• Specify a mailhost for using the email notification.
• in 'portal_properties / ploneguestbook_properties' specify a 'dest_email' where the notifications will be send
• in 'portal_properties / ploneguestbook_properties' specify a 'mSubj' the subject of the notifications.
• in 'portal_properties / ploneguestbook_properties' select the 'entries_per_page' value for your needs.
  
  

If PloneCaptcha is installed:

• in 'portal_properties  ploneguestbook_properties' activate the 'captcha' checkmark if wanted

If an abuse warning text in the guestbook view is wanted:

• in 'portal_properties / ploneguestbook_properties' activate the 'abuse_warning' checkmark

 

Version 0.6 remark

If you are using older versions of the PloneGuestbook and have customized guestbook scripts, you have to recustomize them, or just delete them from the custum folder.