Firebook is a free guestbook script programmed in Perl, which can be easily adapted and integrated into existing systems.

Features

Setup
• Self-installing setup routine
• Rich and comprehensive documentation for all installation steps

Appearance
• detailled skin system - settings, colours, main templates, skin templates, smilie control panel
• template syntax highlighting, template commands
• skin import/export/new skin
• pre-installed skins: firebook layout, print skin
• multiple skins installable
• smilies

languages
• language files control + import/export/create new
• two languages (german and english) preinstalled, automatic language selection
• multiple languages installable

e-mails
• sendmail / SMTP / NET::SMTP available
• e-mail confirmations on new entries / commments, registrations,...
• e-mail template system (13 email templates)
• mail format plain or html, also selectable by guests

security
• secure perl strict programming
• session IDs, cookies
• image verifications
• banning lists, badwords list
• IP time blocking

message functions
• homepage rating, topic field, flags
• ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, Jabber preinstalled plus online status
• rich selection of UBBC codes and click-smilies
• Integration of a great number of movie portals including Youtube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Break.com, Veoh and Google Video
• automatic break, maximum images, maximum images width and height
• revise messages, private messages
• edit messages/comments: own edit menu
• edit all entries at once - admincenter function
• own admin edit functions, admin comment
• pinn, delete, archive, deactivate messages
• Javascript check on fields
• fields can be set required/optional
• maximum number of characters for message
• minimum number of characters editable for fields
• and many more....

additional functions
• Module center to add and extend the functionality
• attachments - file types, limits
• detailled help system for the end-user

additional admincenter functions
• clear arranged admincenter, detailled admincenter functions
• admincenter levels - beginner to professional
• version control
• sort and search options everywhere
• detailled search for message field's contents
• admin logs, average ratings
• time format, time zone settings
• automatic tasks: message deletions, archive, backups, delete attachments,...
• graphics explorer for all guestbook graphics
• gzip compression, cookies
• private messages

SSI / PHP / Javascript functions
• full SSI implementation
• simple integration of the guestbook into a PHP Homepage

Selection of features provided by optional modules

• Spam Filter Protection (Content Check), added security through content check by our servers
• backup of contents
• archive (connection to automatic tasks)
• Guardian protective system: proxy, browser, referer, scripting,... blocker
• mailing lists (includes connection to registration module)
• comments for guestbook messages
• own fields (definition of additional fields of different data types and representations) to collect user data
• User administrations, name registration, permission settings (includes connection to mailing list)
• quick reply box
• detailled access statistics
• guest map (adding pins on country maps)
• own templates (mini-CMS)
• skin editor (detailled control over appearance of the script for the end user through templates)
• form mailer for guestbook messages
• silly stats (top names, top countries, top smilies,...)
• UBBC control center (create your own UBBC codes!)
• and many more...

Great extensibility through

• Skins
• Smilies packages
• Flags packages
• Popup-Smilies packages
• Language Packages
• Guest map packages