Chapter 3. Configuration

There are some options that can be configured using the administration panel. These settings are accessed using der PN Config API and are stored in the mods_var table.

Options

Entries per page

Number of guestbook entries that are displayed on a page.

Theme

The Style / Theme that is used to present the guestbook.

The listbox contains a list of the directories found in modules/postguestbook/styles.

Who is allowed to sign the GB

everyone Everyone is allowed to sign the guestbook.

controlled by permission systemPermission system of PostNuke/Envolution controlls who is allowed to sign.

enable HTML

enable / disable the use of HTML Code in the posts.

This setting affects the presentation of the posting. The content of the message is stored in the database as it is. Turning on this option at a later moment enables html for already posted messages too

yes HTML can be used, but only HTML Tags allowed in the PN Config are passed through.

no HTML is not allowed for posts and the tags will be presented as normal text.

enable BBCode

enable / disable the use of BBCode in the posts.

This setting affects the presentation of the posting. The content of the message is stored in the database as it is. Turning on this option at a later moment enables BBCode for already posted messages too

Note: The postbbcode module has to be installed and activated for BBCode to function.

yes BBCode can be used.

no BBCode is not interpreted.

enable auto Links

Links in the message are automatically converted to html links. Only http and https links are supported. The links open in a new window.

http://www.landjugend.langschlag.at in the message is converted to <a href="http://www.landjugend.langschlag.at" target="_blank">http://www.landjugend.langschlag.at</a>

yes Links in the message are converted to html links.

no Text is left untouched.

Notify of new posts by e-mail?

Flag to turn on/off the notificaton in case of new posts

The following Options only aply, if this setting is set to yes.

yes get a e-mail when somebody posts a new message in the guestbook

no don't get notified

E-mail to send the message to

List of e-mail urls the message on new posts should be sent to.

More than one e-mail url can be specified by separating them by ','

Example 3-1. more than one notify e-mail

first@euroack.net, second@eurojack.net

E-mail subject

content of the subject of the generated e-mail

E-mail message

content of the message of the generated e-mail

Note: The sender, message and a URL linking to the guestbook are always inserted in the e-mail message regardless what is specified here.

E-mail account (from)

The sender of the generated e-mail

Smarty Version

This is the Smarty Version to use for processing the templates.

old should be used on systems running php < 4.0.6

new can be used with newer php installations.