Russian translation and something else

Thank you for Russian, it is added to SVN.

About anti-spam question and Russion, here it works. I can have Настройки as question and as answer, and I can post an antry with it.
I am using Apache 2.4 with PHP 5.6.6 with Debian Linux.
What are you using?

About the text length, I will make an option for that.

Hello Marcel, thank you for flash-like response.

As some new features appeared in the plugin, I have updated my Russian translation. Please find it here: https://yadi.sk/d/Djp2vnwRfM4xJ

My server configuration is following:

Apache version 2.2.29
PHP version 5.3.29
MySQL version 5.5.32-cll-lve
Architecture x86_64
Operating system linux

It still can’t show russian anti-spam custom question normally.

As to limiting the length of Guestbook entries. You have just limited the number of words that are to be displayed in the Guestbook. However

1) The real size of entries is still unlimited and they still can burden MySQL database.

2) It is very easy to outwit the word-count limit by simply typing a single very long word. So a malicious visitor still can spoil the entire Guesbook by entering (for example) one thousand “A” symbols continously without any gap. This leads to very ugly result with the line running out of the screen (though depends on theme). Try it yourself.

3) And the same is with the Gwolle Guestbook widget.

4) And the same is with the “visitor name” field both for the Guestbook and for the widget. Just try to enter username of 1000 continous symbols and look at the result.

All of this allows a malicious visitor to perform a sort of DoS attack (As you probably have already guessed, I am very concerned of security issues. Please accept my apologies about this ?? )

So, what solution seems to be right…

1) To limit the size of entries being entered rather than the size being displayed.

2) To limit the size of entries by character count rather than by word count.

3) To limit the size of “username”.

Thanks, I will check on an install with PHP 5.3.

About the length of the content.
As for spammers, I think you really should use Akismet, and probably the custom anti-spam question (though that doesn’t work for you right now). That should take care of most of the spam.
For living humans abusing the guestbook. If you have people abusing it, you will want to enable moderation. That is the default anyway, and recommended.
You also want to receive the notifications. I want to add more default options so that you can easily see the name and content of the author.

I don’t like having a character limit. I just don’t like it, sorry :).
Also, I prefer to have the full posted content in the database. When you ever want to change the size of the displayed content, you still have your data.

In short, if you really have users abusing it, you want moderation.

OK, I don’t dare to insist ??

I’m just working on a new site which’s content is expected to cause quite live reaction. And some percent of readers are expected to be “haters”. So they might want to seek ways to do damage ??

As to premoderation, it could work, of course. However, as I mentioned above, quite active interest is expected. So in case of big number of new Guestbook entries, premoderation would become too time-consuming.

Well, thank you :). I don’t mean to be rude, I just try to think what is best for most usecases.

I can understand what you want and need though. Probably a custom filter can help you. You can use this for example:

When saving an entry you can filter it like this:

<?php
function your_custom_function($entry) {
    // $entry is an array.
    // Example where every entry that gets saved gets the current time
    $entry['date'] = current_time( 'timestamp' );
    return $entry;
}
add_filter( 'gwolle_gb_entry_save', 'your_custom_function');
?>

You can use anything on the content field here, trim it anyway you want. The same for author_name. It should be able to do what you want.
It is still relatively new, so if you have any problems with that, just ask. But it should just simply work.

What a shame, I’m not a PHP-programmer and I’ve been able to understand nothing of this piece of code ??

What place should I paste it and what string should I replace “$entry[‘date’] = current_time( ‘timestamp’ );” with?

Just to let you know, the encoding is fixed in SVN.
Tomorrow I will give some sample code for your last issue.

This should work, though you might want to upper the value of 40. It will strip long words. Mind you that it only separates strings/words with a space, not a , or a . or anything else. So be carefull with it.

It will only work in the next version 1.2.5 though. It needed a bugfix.

Your request has made me think… If moderation is disabled, it would be good to have a check like this, and mark the entry unchecked, so a moderator does need to check or edit it manually.
I don’t want to destroy data in the plugin, that is up to the moderator, but unchecking suspicious entries might be a good thing.

function your_custom_function($entry) {

	// $entry is an array.

	// Example where every entry-content that gets saved gets stripped from long words
	$maxlength = 40;
	$words = explode(" ", $entry['content']);
	$content = "";
	foreach ( $words as $word ) {
		if ( strlen($word) > $maxlength ) {
			continue; // essentially strip it
		}
		$content .= $word . " ";
	}
	$entry['content'] = $content;

	// Example where every entry-author that gets saved gets stripped from long words
	$maxlength = 40;
	$words = explode(" ", $entry['author_name']);
	$content = "";
	foreach ( $words as $word ) {
		if ( strlen($word) > $maxlength ) {
			continue; // essentially strip it
		}
		$content .= $word . " ";
	}
	$entry['author_name'] = $content;

	return $entry;
}
add_filter( 'gwolle_gb_entry_save', 'your_custom_function');

Hello Marcel,

Custom anti-spam question works with Russian well now, thank you. As to forced moderation of suspicious messages, your idea was brilliant indeed. This is even better than the thing I asked initially.

When I was checking all of this stuff I noticed a little typo in my Russian translation. Only one symbol was mistyped. Nevertheless, you can find the corrected translation here: https://yadi.sk/d/a7WFbsQ_fRYC6

Thank you, that’s good to hear ??
If you have more requests for improving unmoderated setups I will be glad to hear it.

The update will be added, thanks for that as well.

Hello Marcel,

Here is the updated Russian translation: https://yadi.sk/d/ZFevZFqGfYQAe

Thank you. It will be in the next version.

Hello Marcel,

Here is yet another updated Russian translation: https://yadi.sk/d/f43CQruMg9UbE

Thank you.
It will be in 1.3.3. I’m not sure when that comes out, I hope not too long.

Russian translation for 1.3.3: https://yadi.sk/d/4kXn7Cm2gcBCx