<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Vanilla Guestbook 1.2 – Catalystica Studios</title> <meta name="author" content="Ben Babcock" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2006 by Ben Babcock. 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They were either too hard to use, or too insecure, or just didn’t work well with the rest of my site. So I did the same thing that I did when I was looking for a blog: I made my own.</p> <p><strong>Vanilla Guestbook</strong> aims to be to guestbooks what <a href="/scripts/vsns/"><abbr title="Very Simple News System">VSNS</abbr> Lemon</a> is to blogs. It should be simple and functional; easy to set up and use, but full of features that you’d expect in any script. It is not designed to be an awesome, one-size-fits-all guestbook. Rather, it is designed for both the casual and experienced user who want something simple. You can even use it as the launching pad for your own guestbook script!</p> <p>Version 1.0 was full of bugs and security holes. This version is much improved, however, and offers a large range of functional features. I encourage you to give it a try!</p> <h2>Features</h2> <ul> <li>Admin <abbr title="control panel">CP</abbr></li> <li>Ban individual or ranges of <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> addresses</li> <li>Custom messenger fields</li> <li>Easy pagination with configurable number of entries per page</li> <li>Email notification of entries</li> <li>Fully customizable layout through <abbr title="cascading style sheets">CSS</abbr></li> <li>Queue new entries pending your approval</li> <li>Word filter</li> </ul> <p class="jumplink"><a href="#header">Back to top</a></p> <p><abbr title="Message Digest 5">MD5</abbr> Checksum: 068304A355A8D9C5B17F351635B50A35</p> <p>I’ve tried a variety of guestbook scripts, but none of them were quite what I was looking for. They were either too hard to use, or too insecure, or just didn’t work well with the rest of my site. So I did the same thing that I did when I was looking for a blog: I made my own.</p> <p><strong>Vanilla Guestbook</strong> aims to be to guestbooks what <a href="/scripts/vsns/"><abbr title="Very Simple News System">VSNS</abbr> Lemon</a> is to blogs. It should be simple and functional; easy to set up and use, but full of features that you’d expect in any script. It is not designed to be an awesome, one-size-fits-all guestbook. Rather, it is designed for both the casual and experienced user who want something simple. You can even use it as the launching pad for your own guestbook script!</p> <p>Version 1.0 was full of bugs and security holes. This version is much improved, however, and offers a large range of functional features. I encourage you to give it a try!</p> <p>I’ve tried a variety of guestbook scripts, but none of them were quite what I was looking for. They were either too hard to use, or too insecure, or just didn’t work well with the rest of my site. So I did the same thing that I did when I was looking for a blog: I made my own.</p> <p><strong>Vanilla Guestbook</strong> aims to be to guestbooks what <a href="/scripts/vsns/"><abbr title="Very Simple News System">VSNS</abbr> Lemon</a> is to blogs. It should be simple and functional; easy to set up and use, but full of features that you’d expect in any script. It is not designed to be an awesome, one-size-fits-all guestbook. Rather, it is designed for both the casual and experienced user who want something simple. You can even use it as the launching pad for your own guestbook script!</p> <p>Version 1.0 was full of bugs and security holes. This version is much improved, however, and offers a large range of functional features. I encourage you to give it a try!</p> <div id="copyright"> <p>Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 by <a href="mailto:ben@tachyondecay.net">Ben Babcock</a>. 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