[opencms-dev] <- NEW OPENCMS MODULE -+- GUESTBOOK ->

[Cyrill Brunschwiler]

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*            I'm pleased to announce a new opencms module...
*                    The OpenCMS Guestbook V1.0
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Credits:
 * Cyrill Brunschwiler

Thanks:
 * Jens Roleff - Testing Base Module, XML Samples
 * Stephan Hartmann, Alex V Londlevich, Joachim Arrasz - Debugging Hints

Disclamer:
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of merchantability
   or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public
   License for more details.
   FURTHER IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU INFORM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT CHANGES YOU MADE

Short Description:
 * Allows to create guestbook entries. User could enter his name, email adress,
   a link and a text.
 * The module supports also to insert smileys just by enter the right tag into
   the text field. 

Features:
 * Supports input validation by regular expressions to avoid arbitrary code
   injection and as a result to increase security
 * The back office part of the guestbook module supports: create, edit, delete
   and filtered look up by author or text
 * Easy enhancement of smileys just by upload any pictures into the guestbooks
   picture gallery
 * Uses opencms connection pooling
 * Ready for workplace translation to other languages 

Known Issues
 * Users are able to insert the same entry more than once... could lead to a
   DOS Attack
 * Some workplace properties should be moved to the modules registry because
   they aren't really language properties 

Documentation
 * There's no more documentation. If you want to know anything special, have a
   look at the code and java doc (create it yourself)
 * Database properties will be found in the modules registry.
   go for Workplace->Module management->Guestbook module->Administrate...
 * Date and time format properties are also found in the registry
 * All other properties will be found in the workplace.properties(_locale)
 * In fact of java escapes each backslash, backslashes in any regular expression
   needs to be doubled
 * Pictures which should be choosable while creating a new entry have to consist
   of small letters and numbers by default
 * There are few more useful methods to improve your guestbook in the content
   defininiton class (such as get the number of entries or getting a single entry)
 * Never forget... time will tell 

Test Environment
 * OpenCMS 5.0
 * Tomcat 4.0.6
 * JDK Version 1.4.1-b21
 * mySQL 3.23.49
 * Windows 2000 SP2
 
Bugs
 * No known bugs 

Support
 * No Support 
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