Extension talk:Guestbook

Feature Request
Hey, I was wondering if there was a way to change the name of the guestbook on my personal wiki page. I'm trying to make an endorsement page for an organization that I run, and want to use the guestbook extension as an endorsement page, however I would like to change then mane from "guestbook" to "endorsements"
 * No problem, just do it ;)--Mcmilk 21:56, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

the book on each talk page
This is great, do you think it could be set up to make a questbook for each talk page?
 * Sorry, I don't know how to do that --Mcmilk (talk) 08:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Blocking users with the built-in $wgUser->isBlocked function
Is included since version 0.15 ;) --Mcmilk (talk) 16:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Blocking spam specified by $wgSpamRegex global variable
Is included since version 0.15 - thanks MooreJ ;) --Mcmilk (talk) 16:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * However, this addition will cause issues with the rest of a Wiki in that the words specified by the extension override a blank $wgSpamRegex varible and as such it will cause editing issues if you want the word naughty appearing in your text. There has to be a means to use the $wgSpamRegex variable from the localsettings point of variable entry? TeraS (talk) 21:59, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Cannot delete or reply to guest book entries
MediaWiki 1.19.0, Guestbook (Version 0.14). This is a semantic mediawiki installation. http://gausschildren.org/genwiki/index.php?title=Special:Guestbook

When I click on the reply arrow or the delete button, I am redirected to a non-existent Special page.

Susan

--84.186.84.179 19:42, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Have you checked the $GetRequestSeperator settings?

Seems broken on MW 1.21
It worked fine on Mediawiki 1.20, but it seems to be broken on MW 1.21. Arcane21 (talk) 06:43, 26 May 2013 (UTC)Arcane21


 * And this is the arising error. It comes with a totally blank screen. And it seems that it isn't so wonderous because in 1.21 the method "addpage" has been removed. Somwhere I read that this method was depracted since 1.7.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SpecialPage::addPage in /var/www/domains/domain-mobadaten-info/MoBaDatenInfo/extensions/gbook/gbook.php on line 847
 * --Wgkderdicke (talk) 13:14, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Workaround for MW 1.21
If you need only one single guestbook, you may get the version 0.13a, b or c. Add the following line in file gbook.php after the section package definitions:

$wgSpecialPages['guestbook'] = 'guestbook';

Remove the following line from near the end of file gbook.php:

SpecialPage::addPage( new Guestbook );

With the usual adjust of LocalSettings.php the guestbook should work.

If you want to revive an extisting guestbook after an upgrade to MW 1.21, you may have to do some change in the database, too. The entries of the guestbook are stored in the guestbook-table. gb_replyto is used to sort these entries. Usually an guestbook-entry starts with the value NULL in gb_replyto. All other entries are responding entries. If there is a -1 instead of NULL, the whole entry is not shown. After changing the -1 to NULL those entries will appear again.

Living example on MW 1.21.1: Guestbook on www.MoBaDaten.Info

--Wgkderdicke (talk) 07:09, 8 August 2013 (UTC)