Worked very good at first.. but now the guestbook gets flooded by spam! Even with easycaptcha turned on and with easy spamkiller enabled. Very annoying that you have to delete hundreds of posts every day! Make it work! Now!

I have searched all forums and done all I can, but I still got massive spam problems. I use captcha, EasySpamKillerHelper, EasySpamKillerEasybook, etc. I suppose all these things actually help but I still get 10-20 spam entries a day.

It seemed like a great designed guest book. Captcha and all until I was flooded with spam even after changing the Captcha. I still was getting spam. I ended up spending more time dealing with spam then it was worth so I had to remove it.

Although it's listed as a guest book, I edited the prompt names and use it to get comments on an article (instead of using a poll). The layout is simple and neat and smileys can be used. I have already applied the simple modification as suggested earlier by another user and don't expect to have spam problems as reported here.

When I migrated to Joomla 1.5 I used this guestbook as I had found it easy to style.

But I have never recieved so much SPAM even with the captcha enabled. I think the SPAM and the captcha needs to be updated to make this otherwise fairly good guestbook usable.

I was very disappointed with EasyBook. Here everyone is giving it great ratings. I am a newbie who had to figure out how to use it myself as it came with no instructions. Then when I did, it did not show the menus on the left, and did not work well. Moved to Phoca Guest Book and am now happy. Sorry EasyBook!

i had setup this component in my site. Its easy to install and everything looks fine for half a day. Later, i found that my 'Read' links didn't work. Don't know why.

Easy to install and configure!

Does anyone know if there is a comment module for easybook2 or know of a way to display recent comments in a module position?

Before I go any further, I DO realise that this is RC, so it is expected to have glitches.

However, the spam situation is out of hand here. Despite turning on the option for the registered users only to leave messages in the guestbook AND installing easycaptcha,

(the only one that works with the book, I am not very pro with PHP so I couldn't substitute it with another great captcha extension available)

I keep on getting up to 30 spam posts from unregistered ppl on the website that barely manages 20 hits a day.

The support is not there as well. I'm pulling this off the website until I hear something from the developers.

as a total beginner I love this extension, it just works. I mucked around with another which wouldn't do what it promised, this is just what the doc ordered. Cheers

it works well on my site, but it does not support unicode, the non-ascii characters dot not display correctly, hope that it does soon

First I must say it is the BEST solution ever with native Joomla 1.5 who dont want a real non-commercial Guest book component. Here is no HIDDEN Fee [like Copyright notice, which will can remove after donation].

Its simple to setup and simple to work. With easyCaptcha, it works fine.

So full mark goes to its dedicated team.

I have installed this extension on my last 5 sites. I have had absolutely no problem with it.
Thanks to the developers! Great Job!!! If you have PayPal, send me your info and I will be making a donation.

The best Guestbook you can get, 5 out of 5.

I reviewed earlier but gave it two stars for the effort because the Captcha validation is broken.

Spammers can leave out the 'gbcode' from POST and EB will store the entry as if no captcha was active..

Replace the if-statement on line 209 of
components/com_easybook/models/entry.php to include a check for the 'gbcode' key. E.g. use:

if(!array_key_exists('gbcode', $data) || !$captcha->checkEnteredCode($data['gbcode']))

I've monitored my install for a few days now, and the occasional visiting spammer leaves after one try, so it seems their methods won't work anymore :)

hth

Positive: Fast component. Nice layout and cleas css file.

Negative:
- Lots of spam, even with spam suppressor.
- CSS is not included in the view folder. This is not oké when you want to change the layout.

To the developers: please adjust the position of the css files so we can actually use the template adjustment.

Nice work though!
Rob

While it was easy to install.
The daily spam count is beyond ridiculous.
Today, alone, I had 25 spams.

I had to turn of this module on my site, and am now stuck trying to find another one.

easy to install, easy to use, easy ...

but also very easy for others to spam, even with the captcha turned on there is a spam message every 10 minutes ...

too bad :(

Enabled captcha, followed instructions in the forums.. no way.. Spam every 5 minutes!!

I thought this extension will be a breeze. But like the other I had so much trouble with spambots even with the captcha enabled.

Its a fine guestbook but captcha seems to be appearances only, spammers get right through.