Censoring User Comments in a Guestbook/Forum Setting
2815Censoring User Comments in a Guestbook/Forum Settinghttp://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/020900-1.shtmlWhile 99% of your Web sites visitors are kind, positive people, there will always exist that 1% that aim to be an annoyance and will attempt to irritate as many people as possible. These folks always seem to find their way to your Guestbook or Messageboard and post inflammatory messages. Often times, they'll use abusive language that your polite visitors will find rude. Why let a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel?ASP > Tips and Tutorials > Form ProcessingOct 10, 2006
Forms are great for collecting and handling data on your website. But how can you use ASP to make the most of your forms? Most webhosts provide standard scripts for form handling, but to make your site truly dynamic, it will not be long before you want forms to do something more than the average generic script offers.
While 99% of your Web sites visitors are kind, positive people, there will always exist that 1% that aim to be an annoyance and will attempt to irritate as many people as possible. These folks always seem to find their way to your Guestbook or Messageboard and post inflammatory messages. Often times, they'll use abusive language that your polite visitors will find rude. Why let a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel?
If you haven't, the site provides free sample code that allows publishers like me to share information about their articles using the RSS XML format. Sample code is also provided that allows directories (such as these) to read these RSS sources and submit them to their databases.
One way to generate dynamic PDF files is to create PDF template forms and then to fill them on the fly. This article show you how to do so very easily by using the FDF toolkit.
Developing HTML forms for entering or editing data on line is tedious and boring work. It is even more painful if you need a data-entry solution that supports both Netscape and Internet Explorer (IE). Thus most on-line forms have no JavaScript validation and barely any server validation.
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