Secure Guestbook Script with Image Verification

This is the latest version of my secure PHP guestbook script. A lot of new features have been added since the last release including support for entry moderation, separate configuration and language files, improved code and session handling, and much more. The purpose of this script is to provide an easy to use, yet secure guestbook which features image verification to keep out spam bots as well as other security measures. It uses a flat-file storage method so that it will work for users without database access and contains many other features not found in most standard guestbook scripts.

Some of the features

• Flat-file storage with precautions in place to prevent data files from being viewed.
• Various security measures to prevent abuse.
• Separate config and language files.
• Image verification support (can be disabled if your server does not support the GD library).
• Administrative interface to edit and delete entries, ban IPs (and automatically remove entries from that IP), and an option to enable manual approval of entries.
• Implements ‘nofol’ tag to prevent search engine spiders from following links in entries (discourages some spammers).
• HTML in posts disabled by default - you can enable this if you like, but it is a big risk.
• Option to run as stand-alone script or included through another page.
• Smilies are supported (either enter in the code, or click to add!)

Download

• ddgb.zip
• Demo guestbook

Included Languages

The script current includes files for the following languages:

• English
• Dutch
• Formal German
• French
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Please let me know if you would like to contribute a new language file!

Installation

• Download ddgb.zip and uncompress
• Upload all files into a directory of your choosing
• Give write-access to /dat/.entries and /dat/.banlist (chmod 666 or 777)
• Configure the options in config.php
• Run the script by calling ddgb.php

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