Hi I'm working on making a new homepage for a Association I help for free.
And therefore did I decide to use Joomla and found this great Guest book so far for the homepage.
Thing is we use multilingual homepage English and Danish.
It didn't take me long to translate the language files to newest version so the danish part is correct but I ran into a small problem still.
The thing is we demand that there is a name to all post in the guest book hence why I want it to fill a set one out automatically. For the Danish I want "Anonym" and for the English "Anonymous" but atm I can't get that.
How can I make it so it work?
I mean right now everything else works on the English test site everything in the guest book comes in English on the danish everything comes in danish it is only the name that hunts me. When this is fixed have i few things left to do before I can look on design.
The second problem is the old homepage was made entirely in Microsoft ASP and Access and the old Guest book database is a MDB one is there anyway I easy can import it properly to the 2 guest books I have made one for the danish and one for the English or will this end up being a manual labor where I have to write manually every single post in?
Auto filling of name plus import of old guestbook
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Re: Auto filling of name plus import of old guestbook
Hi, which version of Phoca Guestbook you are using?
The Anonymous, Guest ... string is stored in the dabase, so I think there must be some hack to load some specific string, e.g. %anonymous% and replace it by language if clause - detect the language by Joomla! methods and then replace this string
Jan
The Anonymous, Guest ... string is stored in the dabase, so I think there must be some hack to load some specific string, e.g. %anonymous% and replace it by language if clause - detect the language by Joomla! methods and then replace this string
Jan
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Re: Auto filling of name plus import of old guestbook
I have Joomla v 1.7 and Guestbook 2.0.1.Jan wrote:Hi, which version of Phoca Guestbook you are using?
The Anonymous, Guest ... string is stored in the dabase, so I think there must be some hack to load some specific string, e.g. %anonymous% and replace it by language if clause - detect the language by Joomla! methods and then replace this string
Jan
I finally fixed the import of the old guest book.
But what I ran into is that for some strange reason are all post in the joomla database 2 hours behind the database own time lol. when I check time it clearly says my time yet all guest book entries are 2 hours behind nothing i wanna peruse I just find it funny lol.
But this with name would be great as well how to set it to show another amount of post per page I have not been true all php files yet lol so if you could point towards it I would be thankful.
Ohh right the one leading the [removed because of sec. reason] asked me when I showed her the backend how she can see the newest post first also when she tell it to show DK guest book or EN guest book is that possible?
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Re: Auto filling of name plus import of old guestbook
Hi, the ordering can be set in parameters, for other ordering not set in parameters the php code needs to be customized 
Ordering in administration can be changed by clicking on ordering title.
Jan

Ordering in administration can be changed by clicking on ordering title.
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