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Hi, I tested you guestbook and it work fine.
Is there a way to display and confirmation telling the user that their messages had been sent and willl be displayed after it has been approved. Thanks.

There is this confirmation and you can change it in language file to your own text...

Jan

Hi Jan, thank you for your reply...
Would you mind to tell me how can I do it?

I don't know your language, but let's say, your language is en-GB for example ...

Go to your language folder in your Joomla!

language/en-GB/

open the file:
en-GB.com_phocaguestbook.ini
in your text editor and change the following strings:

PHOCA GUESTBOOK ITEM SAVED=Thank you for your entry
REVIEW MESSAGE=message will be displayed after Administrator will review it

The message looks now:
Thank you for your entry, message will be displayed after Administrator will review it

Just change the string to your own...

Jan

Does your template display the system messages?.. Do you see the messages in administrator area?

Jan

Hi Jan,

I've the same problem, no message is shown to the user
'Review' is set to "Yes".

Bluesky

And does your template display the system messages?

See e.g.:
index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic= ... =0#msg3153

index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic= ... =0#msg2400

Jan,

I apologize for resurrecting the old thread, but I seem to have the same problem. Just now starting to explore Phoca Guestbook. For some reason I don't get any confirmation messages after submitting the posts. My users are not normally logged in. The messages do get posted (or forwarded for moderation), but users get no feedback when that happens. Error messages display OK, for example when mandatory field is blank, or CAPTCHA validation fails. But apparently success messages do not. I have Rich Text editor disabled, not sure if that matters. I do use a custom template. I also tried looking for all mentions of "REVIEW MESSAGE" for example, and the only mentions I see of it are in the language .ini files. Is this resource actually used? Any ideas on what should I try or where do I look for the solution? Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi, the message is a system message, so it should be displayed the same way as e.g. if user tries to log in with wrong name... then the message will appear...

Captcha validation message is not a system message, it is a Phoca Guestbook message...

Try to login with wrong user name in frontend, you should get system message about wrong password...

Jan

Jan, thanks for your reply! It is possible that my template ignores system messages. We don't even have logins on the frontend. I do see various Phoca Guestbook messages, not only CAPTCHA, but things like required fields were empty, etc. Can you point me to an example on how to display system messages? Maybe it's just a matter of adding the right tag into the template. Thanks again!