NS Guestbook extension is an open source TYPO3 guest book plugin with spam protection and many customization options. NS Guestbook gives functionality for your guests to share their reviews, ratings, contact details or personal details with experience sharing and much more.
Guest user adds their details and can see all guest user’s guest book detail. Admin can see stories which are submitted by users in Guest book tab. Admin can edit, delete and published/unpublished guest entry. The feature of guest entry auto publish is configurable from the backend.
Key features of ns_guestbook extension
- Easy to install and easy to configure.
- Spam protection with captcha.
- Admin easy to manage the guest entry from the back-end.
- Responsive Design
- Ajax submit form
- Email notification
- Meta Fields
- Preview for the frontend form
- Preview for the admin editor form
1. Front-end view of NS Guestbook
Comments listing
Comments sorting with latest comments first
2. Overview of extension
| Extension Key: | ns_guestbook |
| Extension URL: | https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/ns_guestbook/ |
| Documentation: | https://www.nitsan.in/blog/post/typo3-website-guestbook-utility/ |
| Support: | github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/issues |
3. Back-end view after plug-in installation
3.1 Get the extension via composer
Using the command line
composer req nitsan/ns-guestbook3.2 Get the extension
Step 1: Switch to the module “Extension Manager”.
Step 2: Get the extension
Get it from the Extension Manager: Press the “Retrieve/Update” button and search for the extension key 'ns_guestbook' and import the extension from the repository.
Get it from typo3.org: You can always get the current version from extensions.typo3.org/extension/ns_guestbook/ by downloading either the t3x or zip version. Upload the file afterward in the Extension Manager.
3.3 Activate the TypoScript
The extension ships some static TypoScript code which needs to be included.
Step 1: Go to Template Module
Step 2: Switch to the Root page
Step 3: Select Info/Modify option from the drop-down
Step 4: Click on Edit the whole template record button
Step 5: Switch to Includes tab and add [NITSAN] Guestbook(ns_guestbook)extension to Selected Items list in Include static (from extensions): section
![[NITSAN] Guestbook(ns_guestbook)](/fileadmin/ns_theme_ns2019/blog/live/TYPO3_Website_Guestbook_Utility/TYPO3_Website_Guestbook_Utility_7.jpg "[NITSAN] Guestbook(ns_guestbook)")
3.4 Configuration
Step 1: Go to Template.
Step 2: Select root page.
Step 3: Select Constant Editor > Plugin.Tx_NsGuestbook_NsGuestbook.
Step 4: Now, you can configure all the options which you want eg., cache configuration, storage folder, views of comments etc., See below screenshot.
3.5 Add Guestbook plugins in backend
Step 1: Switch to page where you want to add Guestbook Form.
Step 2: Add Guestbook Plugin and select Form as Option.
Step 3: Set Title for Guestbook Form and E-Mail related details. See Below.
Step 4: Switch to page where you want to display a list of Messages from guests.
Step 5: Add Guestbook Plugin and select Message List as Option.
Step 6: You can set heading for the list, No. of messages to display, sorting of messages in this plugin.
4. Cache clearing
In case you encounter any issues or not working, then please use the buttons ‘Flush frontend caches’ and ‘Flush general caches’ from the top panel. The ‘Clear cache’ function of the install tool will also work perfectly.
5. Support
- Support: You could report any issues/problems at Github - https://github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/issues
- Website: http://www.nitsan.in/ | http://www.itug.in/
- Contact Email: sanjay(at)nitsan.in
Feedback & Suggestions
Just download & try our ns_guestbook extension. You can write down your feedback/suggestion/comments to below comment box and help us to do better!
Hey Ulrich,
Thanks for your feedback.
For textarea stuff, We have just initated ticket at support system at https://github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/issues/4 Keep subscribe to get update. And, feel free to add more support tickets.
For paging, At the moment, we don't have paging feature, but I've already added "feature-request" at https://github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/issues/5 We will do our best to have it in next release.
Cheers,
Sanjay
Hi,
I found this style in the textarea für "message": style="visibility: hidden;" Do you know that issue? And is there a pagination for the list View?
Thanks in Advance
Uli
Hey John,
Thanks for your feedback.
Localization
Sure, you can easily override your labels on https://github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/tree/master/Resources/Private/Language
Hide Captcha
Hmm, we can give such feature to hide/show captcha from backend. You can keep write tickets (features and bugs) at Github support system https://github.com/nitsan-technologies/ns_guestbook/issues
Cheers,
Sanjay
Hi, a few questions. Can the language of field names etc. be changed? And is it possible to turn the captcha off (since it is a disaster for visual impaired). Thanks, John