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Hi, I want to use your guestbook to transfer a bunch of testimonials from an old website, but I would like to show the dates that they were submitted originally. I looked in the edit edit item screen but did not see a way to change the date (as you can with articles in Joomla) Can you add this feature?

Thanks! I was hesitant to move to Joomla 1.5 because of these types of components but so far I'm 2 for 2 with your Gallery and Guestbook!

Hi, there is no such a function to change the date. The date is created if user leave the message (automatically and you cannot change it) ... the easiest way how to do it, is changing it in databese, e.g. via PhpMyAdmin ... I think the better way how to trasfer old data is inserting them via PhpMyAdmin - backup you old database and then copy only messages from the backup and paste them vie SQL query itno you new site database... (it is quickest and easiest way)

Well two problems - this old data from the guestbook did not use an SQL database. The entries are just stored in a file. Second problem is that I wouldn't know how to do that anyways. I have enough knowledge to go in and change them manually like you said though.

Here's another question - can I hide the date completely on the entries?

entries are just stored in a file... only manually adding it into a database will help you...

can I hide the date completely on the entries ... no, you can only disable the name or e-mail..

Hi Jan,
I think there should be some way to hide the date in the display page of the entries? I got all my dates messed up during the transfer from CSV to SQL, and some of them didn't even have dates so I just want to hide the date altogether. There's got to be some code in the PHP that tells the guestbook to display the date down in the lower right side?

EDIT: I found it! views/phocaguestbook/tmpl/default.php and comment out line 180 and the date disappears from the front end entries display

ok