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Pixel Glade Splash Page
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Neocities hive mind I need opinions. I've been using a Discord hook for ages to receive website comments for years but I'd like to move away from this. The main options seem to be using plain PhP or some kind of Wordpress thing. I'm leaning towards plain PhP. Any recommendations?
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do the comments need to be moderated? how many are you receiving weekly approximately?
Moderation yes because I get spam and the rare abusive comment. Comments per year is maybe 2-4 because they are relatively infrequent. What I would like to do as the most similar thing to the Discord hook is to send the form information to an email address so I can manually add it to the site. The comments are infrequent enough that a system like that would work for me.
afaik, neocities doesn't allow php. the sites that I know of which have comment sections use third-party applications. I use Cactus Comments, I know some people use HTML Comment Box.
@hollymacycomic no problem, my site is hosted off site which does support php. It's only the splash page on neocities as a way of keeping a presence here
If you do use PHP (or any other method to write your own comments field), make sure you escape the input and test that it works. https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/
Thank you for the feedback, everyone!
If it's that infrequent you don't need anything other than a little blurb at the bottom of a given post/page that says "email your comments to blahblahblah@pixelglade.net" and then you can just punch it in yourself
@pixelglade oh, that's awesome! good luck with your php endeavors, in that case. :3