Phoca Guestbook 
Requirements:
- Joomla! 1.5, Joomla! 1.6, Joomla! 1.7
Documentation
http://www.phoca.cz/documentation/category/3-phoca-guestbook-component
Demo (Joomla! 1.5):
http://www.phoca.cz/demo/
Demo Phoca Guestbook and Joomla! 1.6:
http://www.phoca.cz/joomlademo/phoca-guestbook
Trying to prevent from spam
http://www.phoca.cz/documents/3-phoca-guestbook-component/436-trying-to-prevent-from-spam
It looks good and professional, and is a real asset to my site.
Thanks,Jan!
Additional goody: it's free!
Where is settings for shift and simple text input?
Hi, I am sorry, but I don't understand what you mean with "shift letters". I think, this is should be a question for Phoca forum - http://www.phoca.cz/forum
where you can get more advices.
Jan
However, every site I install it on gets targeted by spammers within days. They don't reach the front end of the site as its set to require approval - but I've been suffering at least one spam an hour from every site its installed on, despite having ReCaptcha up and running.
This is seriously frustrating. I've had 2 complaints from clients, who, like me, don't have time to battle this imminent spam torrent. Simply put myself and clients have extra work to do now moderating spam every few hours. This is simply not acceptable.
If the spam issue was addressed (!out of the box!) I would give it 5 stars. As it curently stands, I'm not exactly queuing up to use it on my next site...
1 in 7 posts on Phoca's Guestbook forum are about spam. 665 posts. Of my last 7 emails received to my main inbox, 4 are spam from Phoca guestbook - from just ONE site.
Phoca should really nail this problem. Its hurting their otherwise perfect software.
Hi, every new version of Phoca Guestbook gets some new feature of specific spam protection. I am using different products (forums, comments, etc. by external application) and everyday I fight spam - all website inputs made by different application get spammed, see:
http://www.phoca.cz/documents/3-phoca-guestbook-component/436-trying-to-prevent-from-spam
I am using phpBB and it is great software, I have installed over 8 different spam protection methods there and get about 10 spams per days there and over hundreds attempts to spam it. phpBB is great software and I will never review it bad because of some stupid spammers (who of course are allways ready to cross every spam protection - as mostly spam is done by human spammers)
So yes, every new version gets new spam protection methods but ... just read the article mentioned above :-(
Jan
Hi, see:
http://www.phoca.cz/documents/3-phoca-guestbook-component/436-trying-to-prevent-from-spam
In Phoca Forum, I am using phpBB project, I get spammed every hour by a lot of spams (mostly human spam). You can find a lot of information about "spam and phpBB". Does it mean, the phpBB is not OK? No, the phpBB is one of the best forum project (similar to Kunena, etc.) but because it is famous, the information about spam is well known. But I will newer rate phpBB with information, it has no sufficent spam options. :-(
Try to read the article listed above and similar article to know the situation about spam problems. Phoca Guestbook uses many spam protections and can be extended by many other anti spam plugins made for Joomla! But mostly this depends on administrator of the site which methods to protect site inputs he/she will implement. As described in the article, try to set that only registered users can leave a message, because this is only one method which can prevent from human spam (and of course this does not work 100%). The site which get input from world must be daily checked, because the 100% protection against spam does not exist.
Jan
It not just the the extension that is superb but the support from Jan (the developer) is fast and first class.
I see many people on the forums here wanting to remove the powered by link and also criticise Jan for putting this on! Well to remove it just make a simple/small donation and email the developer and you wishes will come true! This is a small price to pay to support someone who develops a critical piece of work to the Joomla Community and users who use Joomla for their site requirements! Jan - well done, keep up the good work!
John
Another point is I am not able to send email notification to any address I like. example my joomla admin id is say admin@foo.com. I need the emails to be sent to feedback@foo.com.
Hi, thank you for your review, please ask questions in Phoca Forum - http://www.phoca.cz/forum. You can add an user into your Joomla! and then you can send email to him.
