Anti-Spam Scripts - Crteating Templates

Anti-Spam Scripts - Creating Templates

Creating templates for the guestbook and entries is fairly easy if you are familiar with HTML.

Entries

To keep things looking neat it is a good idea to create a guestbook entry as a table. You don't have to it is just easier to get things lined up and looking good. Here is an example of a basic entry template:

<table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" border="0" width="100%" class="GB">
  <tr><td width="250">
    <p class="smallbold">[DATE]</p>
    <p class="normal">[NAME]<br>
    <br></p>
    [URL]<br><p class="small">
    <i>Where are you from? </i><br>  [CITY]   [COUNTRY]<br><br>
    <i>How did you find us?</i><br>  [HOWFOUND]</p>
  </td>
  <td class="normal">
  	[MESSAGE]
  </td>
</tr></table>
<hr>

All of the tags surrounded by brackets like [DATE] are filled in by the script at runtime. Classes are from the style sheet and the colors etc are set in the config script.
Below are the tag definitions and the style sheet definitions.

Tags for Guestbook entries
Tag	Description
[DATE]	Inserts the date. ie. Monday Oct 5 2005 16:43:50
[NAME]	The name the person used. Aubrey Millard
[EMAIL]	The email address nospam©combatarts·ca
[URL]	The URL as a link. Home Page
[CITY] / [COUNTRY]	What they left as a city and country Kitchener Canada
[HOWFOUND]	What they selected for "How did you find us?" Just Browsing
[MESSAGE]	The Message they left. Hi! Nice website.

Style Sheet Classes
Style Name	Description
GB	Uses Guestbook background color, text color and guestbook background image as set in the config script. Like This
header	Uses Header text and background colors Like This
small	Reduces font size to 7pt Like This
bold	Sets the font size to 9pt and makes it bold. Like This
title	Uses the title color and sets the font size to 18pt. Like This
smallbold	Sets the font size to 7pt and makes it bold. Like This
normal	Sets the font size to 11 pt Like This

Creating a template for the guestbook is not that difficult.
The only thing to keep in mind is where the entries will go when the script runs. So if you have a basic page like this:

<HTML>
  <HEAD>
	<TITLE>My Guestbook</TITLE>
	[CSS]
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
	<!--[SPLIT]-->  
  </BODY>
</HTML>

The script will put all of the entries in place of the  line. any HTML is ok, just keep in mind that any links or images must be a full URL like http://www.myweb.com/images/image.gif

Below is the list of tags that you can use that the script will fill in at runtime.

Tags for the Guestbook
TAG	Description
[CSS]	The style sheet containing the colors you set in the config script. Must go in the <HEAD> </HEAD> Section
[TITLE]	The Title
[TITLEIMAGE]	Title image set in the script
[ADDGUEST]	Link to the submission page
[DATE]	The Current date/time
[SEARCHBAR]	Displays the search bar for searching the guestbook
[TOTALENTRIES]	The number of total guestbook entries. Only displays the number.
[PAGELINKS]	Links to the other guestbook pages ie.1 \| 2
[VERSION]	The version of the script ie v3.40 BETA.