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Plz suggest a guestbook type script with following functionalities

Want to launch a website with people sharing stories

         

skweb

3:03 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I want to launch a website where people can share their first date horror stories. This is what I am looking for:
1. Visitors will simply type a name and then add their story in a text box.
2. No HTML allowed -- I do not want spammers to come at all.
3. Have some kind of captcha to make sure that it is humans writing.
4. Each submission will create a unique page with a permalink.
5. About 10 submissions will show up on the first page and as new ones get added, they will move on to archive pages.
6. The administrator can edit or even delete offensive or unacceptable stories.

I don't know where to start and have no PHP script skills. I looked around and found that some kind of comment scrip might do the job but there are so many of them that I don't know which one will do the job.

Would anyone know what content management system or PHP script can do all of the above? I would love to get it free but am willing to pay as well.

d40sithui

9:13 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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There are several free content management systems out there that may incorporate most , if not all your needs.
I've only used a CMS called PostNuke, but i've heard joomla was pretty good too.

PostNuke
1.) It allows for a login/register system, and a "add story" function, which suits your #1.
2.) you can filter out html tags using its settings
3.) I dont think it has any captcha, but it does have some anti-spam functions when a new user registers. im using version .764. the new version may have captcha.
4.) each story when created will be assigned an "id", and whether the author permits comments on it or not, it will be displayed that way.
5.) with default settings/themes, the last 10 stories will be listed automatically when first visiting the site. you can change this value of course.
6.) of course, the admin can have rights to create/edit/remove everything.

i've only being using this for a few months, mainly b/c my company's website is postnuke backend from the start.
the only downside i see for your purpose is that everyone will need to register and have "admin" rights to be able to post their first date horror stories. i haven't figure out how set the permission system to allow people to post stories without having "admin" rights. then again, all i've done is just developing modules and themes, not realy having time to play with it.