Publisher review:TalkBack is a featured rich comments and guestbook system. TalkBack is a featured rich comments and guestbook system that uses a mySQL database and is written in the PHP language.
Comments can be added to any pages on your website. It features Akismet comment spam detection, configuration options, visitor subscriptions, email notices, customizable templates, CSS styling, simple installation and easy yet powerfull administration.
General
- Extensive configuration options to control appearance and function.
- Comments are stored in a mySQL database.
- Easy to add to web pages.
- Comments on any number of web pages.
- Comments checked for spam using the Akismet service.
- Customizable error and messages page.
- Language file allows customization of all text.
- Valid XHTML 1.0
- Comprehensive HTML User guide.
- On-going support, development and improvement.
- Comments Pages
- Visitors can reply to a specific comment.
- Admin can edit and delete comments.
- Configurable date formatting.
- Easy to change styling via CSS.
- Customizable templates.
- Images in comments (if allowed) are displayed in a “lightbox” {example}.
- Allows multiple templates for different layouts on different pages.
- Prior/next page buttons, visitor can set number of comments per page
- Visitor can set sort order: newest first or oldest first
- Buttons insert HTML tags into comments if HTML is allowed.
- Comment preview.
- Smiley codes (e.g. “:)”) converted to emoticons. Use the supplied emoticon buttons or your own.
- Visitor can subscribe to all followup comments or only replies to his post.
- By page, new comments can be closed with existing comments still being displayed.
- Optional bad words filtering. Bad words are replaced with a character string of your choice (e.g. bleep)
- Optional spam words filtering. If a spam word appears in comment, it is held for approval.
Comments Processing
- Author name and email automatically filled in if poster is a returning visitor.
- Configurable time period before allowing another post.
- Javascript validation of required form fields for efficiency.
- Server side re-validation of form fields for security.
- Moderation triggered if: - Moderate all comments option is set. - Maximum number of links (configurable) is exceeded. - Akismet (if enabled) flags comment as spam. - Cannot connect to Akismet server. - A spam word appears in the comment.
- URL’s entered in comments are converted to hyperlinks.
- Email notice to new subscriber for subscription confirmation.
- Email notice to subscribers when a new comment is entered on page to which they are subscribed.
- Configurable time offset—assign your local time to comments instead of server time.
- Duplicate comment check.
- Banned IP check.
Administration
- Email notice to administrator if a database error occurs. Email notice to administrator when new comment is entered.
- Admin report panels: - Comments by page. - Recent comments (last n days). - Unapproved comments. - Spam comments (with delete all option). - Subscribers by email address or page. - Banned IP’s. - Edit, delete and reply actions for each comment. - Reply via email.
- Maintenance panels: - Configuration settings – customize comments layout - Optimize database. - Backup database. - Purge comments older than n days
TalkBack 2.3.0 is a PHP script for GuestBooks scripts design by Richard Williamson.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
TalkBack is a featured rich comments and guestbook system.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
TalkBack 2.3.0 script details 
