Is there a way to resrict information entered in forms.

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I have a guestbook setup on my site and in the past few months I have
been getting alot of junk. Links to everything from online poker to viagra.
Is there any way to retrict some from entering links?
 
No.

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Rename your guestbook.
A post in this newsgroup a few weeks ago stated that giving the guestbook a
name other than guestbook.htm stopped this kind of behaviour in that
poster's web site.

The only other viable alternative is to remove the guestbook altogether.

To stop unwelcome visitors you have to find their IP Address, and set up the
server (or use a custom written guestbook to do the same thing) to stop
those IPs viewing pages. This will only work if the visitors have fixed
IPs, which is unlikely.
 
Note: Renaming will only stop automated postings to the guestbook

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Create a custom guestbook application. What I did was to
create a form for the post. Another page reads the post and
sends me a form via email. I can then review it before
submitting it, edit it and submit it, or just delete it.
When it is submitted it posts to a db, and I use a DRW on
the guestbook page todisplay the entries. It took some time
to get it right, but it works good.



rhardin wrote:
: I have a guestbook setup on my site and in the past few
: months I have
: been getting alot of junk. Links to everything from
: online poker to viagra. Is there any way to retrict some
: from entering links?
 
rhardin said:
I have a guestbook setup on my site and in the past few months I have
been getting alot of junk. Links to everything from online poker to
viagra.
Is there any way to retrict some from entering links?
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Sure there is!! Delete the guestbook!! ;-)

Tom J
 
Mike,

Care to share your code with detailed instructions on setting this up in
FrontPage?

Glenn
 
Glenn-
What type of host is your site on and what languages do they
support?

Mike



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: Mike,
:
: Care to share your code with detailed instructions on
setting this up in
: FrontPage?
:
: Glenn
 
Yes, form field validation. If you have frontapge SE, frontapge can do
some of that when the page is run through the server. Yoy specify it at
the form field properties.

Other options are scripting and CGI.
 
Form Field Validation doesn't require the FP extensions, however to process the form without using a
server-side script does require the FP extensions.

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