Guestbook 2.0

Required improvements:
#242261: Add Guestbook as Panels content-type
#292998: Implement User Display API
#246124: Edit/Delete Own guestbook entry
#290895: Implement D6 menu/theme include file handlers (using helper functions in D5)
#224513: Length of admin comment
#285588: Invalid XHTML 1.0 Transitional + Fix
#243801: Registered user's nicknames protection missing
#257394: guestbook menu link can't be deactivated (=> adopt D6 path layout in D5)
#154519: Change page title from "Guestbooks" to "Guestbook"
#250163: Users can't access their own guestbook, if they are not allowed to view user guestbooks
#61968: Allow editing of guestbook entries by guestbook owner and admins
#208389: Display only related post when adding a comment
#76559: Add "has personal guestbook" permission
#182129: Add permission to allow users to enable/disable their guestbooks (also needs to be re-factored not relying on 'data' column)
#133506: Cache not updated for anonymous users after posting guestbook entry
#295025: Provide uninstaller
#296132: Add an option to select input format for intro text

Optional improvements:
#283627: Allow to omit delete confirmations

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...

Good to know you're still tracking this! :)

I did not decide against it, but I feel that we do not have a proper concept for that yet - especially regarding #204552: Post guestbook entry replies in other user's guestbook, which would be the main reason for converting to nodes with/without comments IMHO.

Because of that, I'm considering 2.x primarily as a total clean-up release. Major parts of the code will be overhauled, and other parts will improved (for Panels support), or even removed (replaced by User Display API integration). Most of the code is already in shape, I just need some time to polish it.

@Vuds: I have sent you an email about this issue (used your website's address b/c your contact form on d.o is disabled). Please communicate with me via email (regarding that particular issue only, please). Thanks.

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!

@Vuds: Please contact me privately. I am unable to replicate the issue you have posted, but we should discuss.

@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.

Seems we're getting close now - all of the funny stuff is done now 8)
Having all of this in 2.x means that the impatient are able to test ;)

>> 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?

@minesota: Yes, that's what #246124: Edit/Delete Own guestbook entry is about. TBH, I did not work with APK yet, so I'm actually relying on Michelle's input for relevant issues. There is no integration with Activity yet, but it's something that's already on my list -- if someone creates an "Add Activity integration" issue, I will add it to this list.

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

Well, that was already part of #242261: Add Guestbook as Panels content-type and lives in 2.x now.

@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: Make Guestbook entries nodes/comments 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

Yep, as mentioned before, 2.0 will be a clean-up release only. Guestbook contains plenty of code that matured over the years and it badly needs an overhaul. Turning Guestbooks and maybe even Guestbook entries into nodes is still worth considering, but needs a major rewrite (not clean-up), and hence, better fits for 3.x.

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

Just don't want this to be forgotten for 2.0:

#512784: Wysiwyg support

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Added a new feature request for improving the mail notification #518884: Improve mail notification for new guestbook entries.

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+1 for the Wysiwyg support here

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