Guestbook 2.0

Awesome! Glad to see work on this. I have to admit, every time I use the guestbook on my own site it frustrates me. I want to help with this but not likely to be able to for at least a month. :(

I don't see guestbooks as nodes or anything for making it easier to hold a conversation in one... Did you decide against that or is it just not a priority?

Michelle

It's strange, but my bug issue is not appearing in the issues list...

Ok, I did not receive the e-mail yet but I was thinking about it and I got the point, that one is a security fail issue and it's better to not communicate openly about it. Sorry for that!

@sun - Oh, yes, definitely interested in guestbook. I use it on my site and am not happy with it. (Not faulting you by any means; I just have issues with it). Makes sense about just making this a clean up release. I need to give the other issue some more thought and I'll post again on that issue so I don't pull this off topic.

Thanks,

Michelle

@sun: I have opened my contact form, and sent a mail to you also.

>> Edit/Delete Own guestbook entry

Regarding this, can members edit/delete their own guestbook entries in any guestbook ?

I may have missed:
will this be in sync with Advanced Profile http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile and Activity http://drupal.org/project/activity?
will there be 1:1 or conversation style display link?

APK doesn't use guestbook; it uses the comments on the profile node as a pseudo guestbook.

All you need to do to make guestbook work with APK is provide a panels content type for the guestbook that uses the user context to get the UID. APK is just a preconfigured panels page so anything you can add to panels you can add to APK.

Michelle

@sun - Ah, that looks perfect. Will have to try it out on my own site. Right now I call the guestbook in code using a custom content pane.

Thanks,

Michelle

Just to clear things up, will guestbooks become nodes? This, atm is an important consideration for me.

Since #72607: Use entities for guestbooks and guestbook entries isn't on this 2.0 list, doesn't seem like it. At least not in 2.0. Hopefully he'll consider it for a future version if we can get the details worked out.

Michelle

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Any luck getting this to work with image_cache profile pictures?

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Is it possible to add an option for icons in guestbook 2.X

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+1 for the Wysiwyg support here

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any progress? :)

I think Sun has been pretty busy with Drupal 7 core work. I doubt Guestbook for Drupal 5 is going to get anymore work done on it anyway.

Personally, I've moved onto Facebook-style statuses instead of Guestbook. If you don't need a site-wide guestbook, it's a nice alternative.

Michelle

is this module still beeing maintained? :)

I doubt about it. But you can convert your current guestbook infos into facebook like statuses.

Sun: It's Facebook-style statuses because it started out basically copying FB's statuses. The module is very well maintained by a responsive maintainer and quite effectively replaces guestbook on user pages. It does not replace the site-wide guestbook.

I don't know how many of your users use the site-wide guestbook. If it's not many, you might want to consider simply pointing people to FBSS instead and lighten up your workload a bit.

Michelle

Hi, I'm the maintainer of Facebook-style Statuses, or FBSS.

The primary goal of FBSS is to provide a complete system for user messaging. That is, users can write messages on their own profile or to other users, include Twitter-style #hashtags and @mentions, comment on messages, edit/delete messages, "like" messages, RT messages, and take advantage of a slew of integrations (including with Views, Flag, Rules, Activity...). There are other nice things as well like AHAH-driven message submitting.

I have put a lot of effort into making everything as simple as possible and making sure that the module conforms to what users expect out of such a system. The API is also very comprehensive, and every aspect of the module is well-documented. I work hard to support it in the issue queue as well.

I have investigated Guestbook, and my conclusion is that FBSS has everything required to completely replace Guestbook (plus a lot of other features) except for two things:

1. FBSS does not support a site-wide stream.
2. FBSS does not support anonymous posters.

The first point will be resolved once #576278: Abstraction of statuses from users lands, but that could be awhile off. I'm not willing to support anonymous posters, so the second point is a bit stickier.

I always thought of Guestbook as a great module for a site-wide guestbook, and I would like to see it transition in that direction, passing some of the burden of user guestbooks to FBSS. I am willing to write code to make it happen as well, both in terms of a new Guestbook branch and a data converter. Awhile ago, Michelle helped me write a small module (issue) to convert data from Guestbook to FBSS. That was before FBSS supported comments, though, so it needs an update.

sun, let me know what you think about this. If you want to actually try out FBSS, I have a demo site set up. (The demo site doesn't have comments enabled yet because that feature is in a separate module that is still in alpha.) I'll also be around in #drupal on IRC at various times over the weekend if you want to chat.