My Honoured Guests ===================== Yup... the time has come, **The Voidspace Python Guestbook 1.4.1** has been released into the wild. * `The Guestbook Homepage`__ * `Quick Download Link (120k)`__ * `Plain Guestbook Example`__ * `Voidspace Guestbook`__ [#]_ __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/python/guestbook.html __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=guestbook.zip __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook.py __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook2.py What is the Voidspace Python Guestbook ======================================== Guestbook is a Python script that allows you to add a 'guestbook' facility to your website. It is fully customisable using HTML templates - so the guestbook will appear to be fully integrated with your website. The entries are saved in a plain text file, for easy editing, and there is a naughty word filter as well. Almost every aspect of the appearance is editable using the templates. A few other user settings can be configured as well. All the instructions are contained in the template file. It can email you when an entry is made by someone, and also features smilies, spam protection, javascript form validation, and allows a limited set of html in comments. It is regularly improved and updated. What's New ? =============== This is a major update since the last release [#]_. The new features are : * Javascript form validation (client side) * More advanced anti-spam features (we do a basic check that the entry was made by a human rather than a bot) * A limited set of html is now allowed in entries * Smilies !!!! * Better use of CSS in the standard template * Counter tells you how many times the guestbook has been viewed * A few other bugfixes and improvements Because of the changes there are a few external files (python modules and javascript files) that will need to be installed, as well as the smiley images. Full instructions come with the docs. .. [#] Using the HTML templates .. [#] Version 1.3.0 was the last released version. 1.4.0 did exist for a few days before it was superceded..... *Also*... FireMail the firedrop plugin has been updated. It now resolves the macros before emailing. The plugin.zip also now contains rest.py (reST support for firedrop) which has also been updated, and the update isn't yet included in the official distribution. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/programs.shtml#firedrop *Also*.... A couple of new 'recipes' that *may* be of interest. googlerank How Well Ranked is Your Website ? Version 0.1.0 18th April 2005 googlerank is a small recipe that uses the google api. You give it a domain (by setting a variable), and then a set of search terms via stdin. It then does google searches until a result from your domain is found (so long as it is within the first 200 results - 20 searches). This tells you how far down the list your site appears for given search terms. This is a useful tool for working with website design - it's also very interesting. It produces results that look like : For the search term "python cookies" : Out of an estimated 176000 results. Your website came at position "7". With URL - "http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml" see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#google CGIHTTPServerWithSSI A Simple Server with SSI Processing Version 0.1.0 15th April 2005 This is a simple server implementation, this one based on CGIHTTPServer. It does everything that CGIHTTPServer does, with some SSI processing as well. So far it handles include and flastmod, but adding additional instructions would be easy. Simply drop it in a directory and it will serve webpages, with that directory as the root directory. Any pages that end in .shtml or .shtm, it does SSI processing on. see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#ssi Best Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/py­thon