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Hey all.

In the cPanel, there are two options on different types of guestbooks that you can use. Is there a tutorial or can someone explain how to use them or the differences between the simple and advanced? Thanks y'all

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The simple one you need to do all the work.

 

I would try the advanced one, it installs by just selecting a folder.

Enter the a user name and password when asked, any will do.

Then log into the admin to play with the style and templates.

You will have to use ftp or file manager to change permissions for the template files.

Look above in the admin page, when changing a template to see the location of the files to give permissions to.

Just change to 777 til you are done, then change it back so no one else can change it.

Do all the customizing before you make it public.

 

If you want to see one, I have a test version for me to learn from.

www.thepetscorner.com/testguestbook/

 

Every thing can be changed from the admin pages.

 

hope this helps.

 

 

I am going to move this to Cpanel Support so all will see it and help you with it.

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Hey Turtle.

I apologize for not following up earlier, but I have been out of town on vacation and I completely forgot about my question. :dance:

Anyways, I've been playing around with the different settings and I have 2 questions:

1. How do I go live, do I just place a link to the folder or url in which I have stored the guestbook (www.venuechicago.com/vcGuest)?

2. What can I change as far as the templates go. I am still learning about programming, so I am afraid of messing something up. Is there anything that needs to be changed before I go live with it?

 

Thanks.

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Yes, just put a link on your pages.

 

You can change the background and the colors and a few other thing using the admin panel with styles and templates.

 

I would make a copy of any templates to change,

and save on my computer,

when I find the file to change the permissions as indicated in the above post.

You can install a second guestbook to play with, and see how to make changes.

 

In the templates section you can edit the header to add a background image like

<body background="http://mysite.com/imges/background.gif" bgcolor="$VARS[pbgcolor]" link="$VARS[link_color]" vlink="$VARS[link_color]">

add the part in blue, but it will only show around the edges.

 

If you look at the body.php you will see

<form method="post" action="index.php">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" width="$VARS[width]">

<tr>

<td width="56%"><img src="img/logo.gif"></A></td>

 

the img/logo.gif can be replaced with your own by uploading an image of the same name to the same folder (img),

or you can remove it and replace it with text.

 

<form method="post" action="index.php">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center" width="$VARS[width]">

<tr>

<td width="56%">

<!--

<img src="img/logo.gif" width="225" height="42">

-->

<FONT SIZE="+2"><B>

<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">My Guest Book</FONT>

<BR>

<A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/" TARGET="_top">Return to my site</A>

</B></FONT>

see how the image is commented out and replaced by a text link back to the site.

 

You do not have to change anything, but now its the time to try changing it.

Again install a second guestbook to try changes on with out fear of messing up. You can always delete the second one and start over.

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Having a little problem....

log into the admin to play with the style and templates.

You will have to use ftp or file manager to change permissions for the template files.

Look above in the admin page, when changing a template to see the location of the files to give permissions to.

Just change to 777 til you are done, then change it back so no one else can change it.

 

I am using Dreamweaver and am not exactly sure how to change the permissions for the template files. B)

 

Any suggestions?

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When you go to change a template in the admin, look at the top for the path to the file.

use ftp or cpanels file manager to locate the file

copy to your computer as a backup, and change the permissions of the file on your site.

Change to 777 until you are done, then go back and change it back to 755.

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Hey Turtle,

In the Adv. Guestbook, do you know where,in which folder, the code for the Jump Box is located. Might just be my eyesite today but I can't seem to find it. I would like to use the jump box for the links back to other sections of my site.

 

Thanks

 

Edit: Never mind. After working a little more on this I don't believe its possible to use the jump box for this purpose.

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Still having problems with the permissions. Mad!!! Went into the file manager on cpanel and changed it to 777. After I press "change", it goes back to 755. What's up with that?

I went ahead and edited some of the things that you told me about. (Just clicked on the file and pressed edit). I don't think i'm doing this right, but I don't know where to test it. Is there any way I can see this without going live with it?

 

I hope i didn't bite off more than I could chew....

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There is a bug in File Manager that keeps permissions from changing. You can change the permissions using an FTP program such as SmartFTP or CoreFTP. If you will tell me what server you are on (look at the Welcome to server## message when you log into CPanel) I will look at editting a file that should get the File Manager to work as well.

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As Rick says, ftp is the easiest way to change the file permissions.

I used CoreFTP with no problems.

 

Curtis, that jump box is for the guest book to jump to other pages.

 

You can add links to other pages as I have shown above.

You can also edit the header and footer to add html links.

In my testguestbook I added a link back to my site at the top and a link at the bottom back to the top of the page.

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Turtle you must be psychic. That was the next thing on my list.

I wish there was some way to edit the date each post was made. I transfered all the entries,from my old guestbook, and it looks a little funny,all the post having the same date.

Thanks for the input.

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Hey guys.

I am on server 40 if you want to take a look at it.

I have mostly used Dreamweaver as my ftp, but I also downloaded SmartFTP.

I am not to familiar with it so I don't know how to change the permissions. Can anyone help me out? Sorry I'm being so annoying about this. Just trying to learn Naughty

Thanks

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Turtle,

Thank you so much for all of your help. I posted the GuestBook that I made at www.venuechicago.com/vcGuestBook

 

I made that change that you told me on the header.php

 

<body background="http://mysite.com/imges/background.gif" bgcolor="$VARS[pbgcolor]" link="$VARS[link_color]" vlink="$VARS[link_color]">

 

I changed the web address to "http://venuechicago.com/images/cloud.gif" and nothing showed on the background....(not even on the border). Any suggestions?

 

Once again. Thanks for everything!

 

Sam

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Check permissions of header.php

look at the header.php to see if the changes took

verify the image file name location,spelling, capitalization, file type (gif/jpg)

thats all I can think of for now.

 

Th image will only show around the edges of the table the guestbook is in.

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