Unable to edit entries

New Member Joined: May 23, 2004 Posts: 3

My guestbook was working fine, until today when I tried to edit an entry, I could not find any 'submit' or 'delete' button. Then I realized this long java script appeared in the comment box. It looked like the script to display the 'submit' and 'delete' buttons somehow ended up being displayed in the comment box.

Can anyone resolve this issue?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Something that you recently changed/added appears to be have errors in it, not necessarily KISGB. If you have not changed anything, then check with your host to see what they might have changed. One other outside possibility is that some one may have enetered an entry that has hosed up the guestbook, but that would be a slim one.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:47 am

I tried to paste the code that appeared in the comment box here, but it won't allow the HTML to be posted, how can I include html in my post?

I don't recall changing anything at all recently, so I can't think of what could have caused this issue.

My GB is located at [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] . If that will help.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:53 am

Enclose your code in [ code ] [ /code ] (remove spaces). Please don't post large amounts of code for us to look at. To test if it's a bad entry, backup your kisgb.csv.php file. Remove the entries 1 by 1, from the end, until you know that it was working. It is possible that someone tried to enter an entry to hack you.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 11:26 am

One particular post, in which they used the mexican wave smiley about 7 times, caused my table to stretch horizontally, thus creating a long horizontal scroll bar on my page. I went into kisgb.csv.php and tried to delete that particular post, and deleting that post did fix the 'edit' problem. But it would mess up many of the previous entries, and 2-3 pages of entries would disappear. Many entries would display incomplete html codes for the smilies they attached, and some would display the IP and some other jargon.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 11:55 am

Please zip you kisgb.csv.php file and email it to me. Thanks.

Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 4:52 pm

I got your mail. I will look at this as soon as I can. In the meantime, to control the scrolling, in user.prefs.php set this to the max number of smilies per post
$max_smileys_allowed = 3; //or whatever number you need

Also, try adjusting this setting too
$comment_cols = 40;