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shout box
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 12:02 pm
by sublevel4
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
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 1:56 pm
by phice
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..
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:27 pm
by hob_goblin
needs spam control.
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:27 pm
by sublevel4
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:29 pm
by sublevel4
what type of spam control hob_goblin??
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 5:11 pm
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 6:55 pm
by hob_goblin
i just sat there and it resent my message, thats pretty annoying.
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 11:15 pm
by llimllib
I just let mine take spam, if somebody really wants to spam my shoutbox, I could care less.
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 4:37 am
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

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 7:33 am
by sublevel4
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/
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 9:29 am
by phice
Interesting...
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 10:47 am
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
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 11:14 am
by Takuma
Quite good how about adding filters on and how come if I use this
It display an empty string?
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:00 pm
by hob_goblin
it's called striptags
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:18 pm
by codewarrior
Well there is a new hacked version out there that lets you see the IP and time too
