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I started out with a tutorial and built and added stuff from there. I wanted to get some opinions on my shout box. Take a look and let me know what you think.

http://sublevel4.f2o.org/shout_form.php

Thanks
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What's the deal with the @723 thing? I've seen quite a few sites (Melodramatic.com to name one) that used it. I talked to the webmaster of Melo, and she said it was some type or error..
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needs spam control.
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The @723 is a time display. this is Swatch beat time. It is supposed to be a world time display. It supposed to put the world on one time @723 here on the east coast of the US is the same is @723 in london even thought local time in london like 6hours off the eastern standard.
for a better example
http://www.swatch.com/fs_index.php?haup ... ons&unter=
then go the internet time and and explanation is under informantion.

I had seen it used before and i liked the idea and then i saw that it was build in the php date() function and thought i would make use of it.
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what type of spam control hob_goblin??
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Post by phice »

sublevel4 wrote:what type of spam control hob_goblin??
Controlling the number of posts by the users IP. IE: Give the user 30 seconds between each reply. Because I could easy go on there and just keep holding <enter> on the submit button, and submit the information over and over.
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Post by hob_goblin »

i just sat there and it resent my message, thats pretty annoying.
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Post by llimllib »

I just let mine take spam, if somebody really wants to spam my shoutbox, I could care less.
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Post by m3mn0n »

...lol i agree

but it does ruin the hole point of it, nobody can see the individuals who typed in a "hello" msg all they see is one idiots shout 20x.

btw, what tutorial did you use? i am interested in one for my site 8)
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Think i am going to ad some spam protection i would be annoying to miss a message because some one wants to be stupid.

the tutorial i used is http://www.oxyscripts.com/view_tutorial.php?id=56
i built on that one a made some changes.
i also found another one here http://www.phpbeginner.com/
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Post by phice »

Interesting...
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Post by lc »

Looks good.

Go see mine too then hehe http://alienhelpdesk.com

Oh and about spam protection... what I always do in such scripts is run a check. So after a submit get the last entered message and check the submitted data against that, and only enter it in the DB if it's not the same. That solves the Resubmit upon refresh thing. Though I think I didn't do it in the shoutboc yet... shhh don't tell anyone hehe
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Post by Takuma »

Quite good how about adding filters on and how come if I use this

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<?php echo "hi" ?>
It display an empty string?
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Post by hob_goblin »

it's called striptags
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Post by codewarrior »

Well there is a new hacked version out there that lets you see the IP and time too ;)
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