Sorry Minisweeper, same error. Shame, I've had over 1400 unique visitors in the last 4 weeks, only 2 registered, I'd like to try allowing guests to post and see if it makes a difference.
Err. Try dropping the single quotes round $GU and $GP on lines 64 and 65 and see if that works. If it doesnt then replace those lines with just $Username = $GU; and $Password = $GU; and see if that works. Bit confused what's up there.
Before you do that, I assume it works if you put a username and password in..?
Thanks heaps Mini, this is a truly useful extension for anyone with fairly itinerant and not very committed visitors, to encourage some comment, and hopefully growing involvement. It seems to work perfectly for me, but I guess time will tell.
I realy sux at PHP, so please bright me up - define the guest account username and password-?? In witch line exucatly i need to change and what, if for example my login will bee "guest" and psw will bee "abrakadabra". Im already made a guest account ar roles and perrmissions. I got latest versions of sources, but still I see that error "Some problems were encounteredThe requested username and password combination could not be found."
Thanks !
yeah, could not find propper topic, so making offtop. here, sorr for that,, Is there some addon whitch allows wrote in forum in aas exotic language as latvian? the point is thai in latvian are some letters like Ā, Ū, Ķ , etc, but in my forum they looks вlвз. Maybe its hosting problem?
If you open up the default.php file which comes in the GuestPost folder you'll see 2 lines near the top which define the username and password. Change them to the right details and it should work fine. As for your second post, it's to do with the charset of the forum. There are discussions on here. If you cant find one then please make a new one.
Hi Minisweeper, I installed your extension awhile ago but it was very confusing for the users as they all had the same name. I used to have a forum that was completely open and it was very active. Now that people have to register, the topics and posts are non existant. I was wondering if it would be possible to add a field where people could input their name which would appear behind the word guest. e.g. guest:jpsloshua
As well as a captcha to keep out the spammers. I still like the idea of only letting registered members make topics but shutting the forum for guest posting is really killing me.
I agree. Guest post with captcha and names would be awesome, just too many people cannot be bothered to sign up. It would make things more spontaneous.
Maybe you wouldnt even need the "guest" prefix for guest posters when the name they enter is checked against the member database (so in case there is a duplicate name it will have an error message).
I have guests allowed to post, and it works extremely well. I have modified the text in the comment box with "Please include your name in the comment."
No SPAM issues yet, it has been about 3 months and still SPAM free.
I tried CAPTCHA, it will not work with my server, in any case I think its over-kill unless SPAM becomes a problem.
I have a JavaScript alternative to CAPTCHA, not fool-proof but seems to do the job.
for m, captcha is a necessity. I have been using another forum software and have run into major problems because captcha was missing. Sometimes I had to spend hours just deleting spam. so a guest post with captcha would be the best combination.
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Grab the new version 1.1f and see if that helps.
Shame, I've had over 1400 unique visitors in the last 4 weeks, only 2 registered, I'd like to try allowing guests to post and see if it makes a difference.
Before you do that, I assume it works if you put a username and password in..?
After the comment is added, Guest remains logged in with access to the Account tab, not good!
Also, changing GuestUsername to $GU on line 84 now logs out the guest properly.
Thanks sincerely for your interest and patience not to mention talent!
Later: Also, line 54 should be...
$Head->AddStyleSheet('extensions/GuestPost/style.css');No probs though, no talent about it it's entirely guesswork
As for your second post, it's to do with the charset of the forum. There are discussions on here. If you cant find one then please make a new one.
As well as a captcha to keep out the spammers. I still like the idea of only letting registered members make topics but shutting the forum for guest posting is really killing me.
guest 3 hours ago
Joshua
this is joshuas comment.
guest 2 hours ago
Jake
this is jakes comment.
That any better for you?
I've also no idea about captchas. Maybe i'll look at the existing captcha extension and see if i can steal something from it...
I have modified the text in the comment box with "Please include your name in the comment."
No SPAM issues yet, it has been about 3 months and still SPAM free.
I tried CAPTCHA, it will not work with my server, in any case I think its over-kill unless SPAM becomes a problem.
I have a JavaScript alternative to CAPTCHA, not fool-proof but seems to do the job.
Posted: Monday, 1 January 2007 at 12:15PM (AEDT)