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Guest Book Show All Developer's Extensions
Jambook ComponentcomponentLanguagelanguage
Rating
42 votes
Developer:Olle Johansson Version:1.0 RC1 (Updated 5 days ago)
E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Compatibility:Compatible with Joomla! 1.5 LegacyCompatible with Joomla! 1.0
Views: 90,123 License:GPLv2.0
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23
Type:Non-Commercial
Date Added:Oct 10, 2006
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Jambook
Jambook is an open source Joomla guestbook component with spam protection and many customization options. It has been written from scratch to be easy to use and yet have powerful functionality for the administrator.

For those of you interested in switching from other guestbook components there is an import feature, which in this version can import entries from AkoBook v3.42 and EasyBook v1.1.

CHANGES:
Finally a new release of Jambook! This is the the first release candidate before the stable v1.0. All outstanding bugs have been fixed, and a lot of stuff has been tweaked. There are even a few minor new features here and there.

Now works with Joomla 1.5 (using Legacy Mode Plugin)!


Features
* All frontend html in template files editable from administrator.
* Several spam shield settings to determine if entries should be considered spam.
* CAPTCHA image spam protection without the need of an external component (requires TrueType support on server).

* Possible to ban specific IP addresses from publishing entries.
* Fully compatible with Joomla 1.0.x
* Email address cloaking
* Flood protection and double posting checks available.
* Registered users may edit their own entries within a set timeframe.
* Configurable whether guests should be able to enter a name for the entry.
* Configurable whether to show username or real name for entries made by registered users.
* Automatically delete entries after a set number of days.
* Send email to admin and/or author when entry is written.

* Joomla Wysiwyg html editor support, even for guests!
* Possibility to turn off editor even when using editor in Joomla.
* Configurable whether a preview page is shown before entry is saved.
* Available languages: English, Swedish, Dutch, German (informal), German (formal), German (informal), French, Portuguese, Serbian (latin charset), Norwegian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chin
ese, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Romanian
* Import entries from AkoBook and EasyBook.
* Super Administrators and Administrators are allowed to edit and delete entries in the frontend.
* Configurable whether all, some or no HTML should be stripped from entries entered from the frontend.
* Admin can define which HTML tags are allowed in entries.
* Works with Register Globals turned off!
* Both server side and client side checks that URL and Email are valid.

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Excellent - Out of the box! by oMama, April 20, 2007
Worked perfectly with no tweaking. Exactly what I needed.


User friendly by D3QUAL, April 14, 2007
2 of 2 people find this review helpful:
I had tried other guestbookcomponents, but this is really one of the best. No installation problems, easy to import messages from another component.

The fill in-system is really user friendly and you can change a lot to your message layout.

Spam protection included and you can choose to show your website and email or not.

Very nice!


Perfect! by hans, March 4, 2007
This gastbook works super. Easy to configure. Just what I needed for my site


Great stuff!! by Bengt, March 2, 2007
2 of 2 people find this review helpful:
Works right out of the box. You will have to have TrueType support on your server. The best is though this guy gives support!!! If you use this guestbook ols send him a few dollars!!

Suggestion: It would be nice to have a easyer way to edit the textlines on the sight for example i cant figure out how to change the text "These are the entries in our guestbook" .

Im sure there will be interesting updates. Keep up the good work Olle!


Owner's reply:
All text strings are available in the language files, placed in components/com_jambook/language



It's also possible to just edit the Jambook template files from the administrator panel to change some text.

Better than Easybook by baijianpeng, January 12, 2007
1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Before I try this one, I always recommend Easybook component to friends. Today I tested Jambook 1.0beta6. It's wonderful!

The capcha code in Easybook is very ugly to recoganise for human eyes. Jambook has clear verify code. And Jambook allow preview or not, show the form at same page or another page, and many other options.

Only drawback of this component is that the e-mail and website icon for each poster at frontend should closely below their name instead of far down to the bottom of the table cell.


Owner's reply:
The placement of icons and look of the entries can be changed by editing the Jambook templates from the administrator panel.



There is also support for several different templates/themes, so if someone that is a better designer than me sends me an updated look I'd gladly add it to the standard release.

Excellent work by boxerfan, December 22, 2006
0 of 1 people find this review helpful:
Easy to install, maintain and modify!


Major problem using captcha by robinh, November 15, 2006
3 of 3 people find this review helpful:
Was a simple install and config, but having an error in entering new entries with captcha enabled.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ImageTTFText() in /home/mystuff/public_html/components/com_jambook/ocr_captcha.class.php on line 123

I'm sure there's something wrong with my config or my php setup, but this is on a new load of 1.0.11 and on PHP5. Should work but no go for me without some sort of spam protection.

By the way, if I turn captcha off it works fine.


Owner's reply:
This means that PHP on your server doesn't have TrueType font support. I don't think I can make a fix for this, but I can add checks and warn if it doesn't exist and suppress the error message.

Cool Guestbook by nfs42, October 16, 2006
7 of 8 people find this review helpful:
Import from Akobook works pretty good.


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