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GuestWho
Advanced, template driven guestbook, highly customisable. Includes smut/spam filters, unlimited fields, full admin functions with edit/delete entry options. Working template and complete user's guide included.
Perl/Guestbooks
http://www.guestwho.com
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Member rating in stars: 
Member rating in number: 2.00 (out of 5)
Number of votes: 1
User rating in stars: 
User rating in number: 4.62 (out of 5)
Number of votes: 8
Number of hits: 2157
Hits a day: 1.0089
Added to database: Wed, 15th January 2003
Last updated: Wed, 15th January 2003
Days old: 2138
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the documentation sucks
This is a fairly complicated script, so it would be nice to have some documentation on how to set it up and get it going. There is a 21 page manual, but it spends all its time explaining esoteric tags without ever giving simple instructions on how to set up and access the script. Here is an example of a line from the documentation:
"If you are sure you know what you are doing, here are the instructions."
This appears on the first page following the table of contents. The message is: if you are not already an expert at setting up complicated scripts, then good luck, buddy, because we aren't going to help. I would like, of course, to know what to do if I am not sure what I am doing.
The documentation includes an entire chapter, chapter 4, which is titled "Getting To Know Guestwho," but the information is frustratingly useless. For instance, it never mentions how you access GuessWho on your website, but it does belabors the obvious with lines like "to add an entry click on 'Add Entry'"
On the whole I think it is probably a good program if you can figure it out, but unless you are a professional website scripter you will find the documentation frustrating.
Reviewed by: Jon Crowell
Added: Tue, 3rd January 2006
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