Hoorah! BellaBook3.1

As promised, it is now Friday and here I am finally releasing BellaBook3.1.

I must admit, there was a bit of last minute panic. I didn’t think I was going to release it on time because all of a sudden errors that weren’t there before starting appearing — despite not having edited any files. I spent a couple of hours ranting at Amelie only to discoverer it was a case of needing to use “” instead of ” around a preg_match(); pattern. Although it was only affecting one of my patterns. Yeah, I don’t get it either.

So, here we are. Finally. Much-awaited, etc etc. You can find BellaBook information, answered questions and a brief tutorial (will be bettered eventually) on custom guestbook styles on the dedicated BB page, or you can simply download it direct — do be sure to CHMOD the three txt files to 666 though. :)

Please please please send me feedback, errors, bugs, any problems etc. Although I can’t guarantee I’ll reply tomorrow (BIRTHDAY!!) I will get back to you Sunday, or early next week. Yay. Tell all of your friends :)

Edit: minor bug.. I made a typo in the sign.php file. Anyone who has already downloaded the script needs to fix this themselves or download the script again. Find these two lines in sign.php:
$pattern = "/b(' . implode('|', $BadWords) . ')b/i";
$ipcheck = "/b(' . implode('|', $BlockedIPs) . ')b/";
Change them for the following:
$pattern = '/b(' . implode('|', $BadWords) . ')b/i';
$ipcheck = '/b(' . implode('|', $BlockedIPs) . ')b/';
and this:
} else if (!filesize("badwords.txt") == 0 && preg_match($pattern, $name) || preg_match($pattern, $email) || preg_match($pattern, $url) || preg_match($pattern, $comments)) {
for this:
} else if ((!filesize("badwords.txt") == 0) && (preg_match($pattern, $name) || preg_match($pattern, $email) || preg_match($pattern, $url) || preg_match($pattern, $comments))) {

Let me know if you have any problems.

Edit: Now with gravatar and smilies support courtesy of Bubs :)

30 comments so far

  1. Amelie said:
    On 07 Jan at 12:01 am

    EEK! I forgot it was your birthday! But hey it’s midnight so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *Throws mini party* Big two oh, huh? Trust me, it’s not that exciting… it’s all downhill from now! :P Hope you have a good day and that people get you want you want. ;)

  2. Jem said:
    On 07 Jan at 12:02 am

    I’ve already had what I want for my birthday :) My Daddy has come over from Belgium to see me.. and it was all a surprise! yay.

  3. Amelie said:
    On 07 Jan at 12:10 am

    Awwwwwwww! :D Well I hope you two have fun and get some nice family-style bonding in between the celebrations. :)

  4. Rosemarie said:
    On 07 Jan at 12:42 am

    triple whammy!!!!!!! The book, the dad and the birthday. Have a good one :)

  5. Anneke said:
    On 07 Jan at 1:25 am

    Thanks for the Bellabook, Jem! I’m going to go ahead and look at it now. And oh, happy birthday! Have a fun one! xoxo

  6. Shannon said:
    On 07 Jan at 2:50 am

    Hi (._.). Downloading BB right now. I’ve been waiting forever to see it. My ugly knowledge of PHP is much too limited to ever code my own guestbook. Download’s done! -opens zipped folder now-

  7. Ang said:
    On 07 Jan at 3:31 am

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I’ll probably try Bellabook somewhere soon. Sleeeeepeeeee.

  8. Meggan said:
    On 07 Jan at 5:03 am

    Happy birthday Jem! Glad your dad got to come to see you!

  9. Jordie said:
    On 07 Jan at 8:15 am

    Happy 20th, Jem!

  10. Stephanie said:
    On 07 Jan at 9:32 am

    Wow… another birthday… Very happy birthday. ^_^

  11. Vixx said:
    On 07 Jan at 11:38 am

    Happy Birthday, sweetheart! (I’d put into my Rainlendar to remind me!) Have a lovely day – and congrats on the release of BB! :) *hugs* V xx

  12. Ewa said:
    On 07 Jan at 1:38 pm

    Happy birthday Jem!!! May all your dreams come true! And big thanks for BB 3.01!

  13. Frosty said:
    On 07 Jan at 3:52 pm

    Happy Birthday Jem! *throws confetti* Nice to know that BB3.1 is now nice and released, and working better than ever! :D

  14. dandyna said:
    On 07 Jan at 7:42 pm

    happy birthday hun!

  15. Bubs said:
    On 07 Jan at 8:10 pm

    The script is great :D Happy Birthday!!

  16. Carly said:
    On 07 Jan at 9:06 pm

    happy birthday to youuuuu! hope you’ve had a great day today – we all expect you to post about your fun filled day and make us green-eyed with details about pressies and cakes! Carly x

  17. Amber said:
    On 07 Jan at 9:06 pm

    Happy Birthday Jem! I hope you have a great day and get everything you want. I’ve downloaded the script and customized it, it’s all up and running and it looks great :). Thanks!

  18. Elea said:
    On 07 Jan at 9:57 pm

    Happy 20th birthday, Jem! I hope you’re spending it well. =) And ooh, Bellabook 3.1…spiffy…might consider putting back a guestbook on the site…

  19. Michelle said:
    On 07 Jan at 10:03 pm

    Happy birthday, Jem! Twenty, eh? You’re getting OLD! ;) I’ll download and use Bellabook eventually. I’ve been looking forward to the release of 3.1. :)

  20. Jim said:
    On 08 Jan at 12:20 am

    Happy Belated Birthday!

  21. kamote said:
    On 08 Jan at 4:44 am

    wow, thats great

  22. Lynn said:
    On 08 Jan at 4:53 am

    YAY JEM IT’S UP!!! Annnnd HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Uh, get the point? Hehe.

  23. Vera said:
    On 08 Jan at 7:07 am

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And LOTS of cool presents. :D

  24. Stephanie said:
    On 08 Jan at 10:01 am

    Yay BELLABOOK! How exciting. And happy birthdaaaaaaaay! Yay for Jem being… older. ;P

  25. Tracey said:
    On 08 Jan at 1:31 pm

    I’m late, I’m late!! Happy belated birthday Jem!!

  26. Carly said:
    On 08 Jan at 3:43 pm

    ATTENTION JEM! Hello there! My next door neighbour at home has decided to quit his day job and become a web designer. Erm.. ok. So I checked out his website, to be plauged by something I would describe as: ‘not very good.’ He has writern his website, and indeed his paid work website for the local pub in html transitional 4.0 with dodgy iframes and style sheets that are on the week side. Aside from the highly distracting and the moderate-to-average flash player images scrolling across the page, the whole website appears to be copy and pasted from geocities or something. Anyhow – why is the relevent to you, I hear you cry? Because I was wondering, if you had a little spare time you would perhaps take a look at it, and give me your honest opinion? Why – because if Jem hates it, I know it’s bad and if it’s bad I will feel all warm and fuzzy inside. (I hate my neighbours.) I understand if you’re too busy though or if you just don’t want to!

  27. Martijn said:
    On 08 Jan at 5:11 pm

    Guess I’m a little late, but wanted to wish you a happy birthday anyway. Congrats on Bbook, looks good :) See ya ’round !

  28. Malin said:
    On 08 Jan at 9:21 pm

    Omg! Im a bit late, but happy birthday! :D The BB looks really good!

  29. Carly said:
    On 08 Jan at 11:28 pm

    also, not that this is at all relevent, maybe to premote ‘awareness’ of bellabook we should all make some lovely ‘codes’ ( or erm 88 x 30 buttons) to display on our blogs so people can come and eat Jem’s bandwidth and use her guestbook.

  30. Romy said:
    On 09 Jan at 12:55 am

    I totally missed the birthday comment when I first read this entry, so that’s why I’m so late in wishing you a Happy Birthday. Hope it rocked! :)