The Verbosifier shoutbox/tagboard

What is The Verbosifier?

The Verbosifier is a piece of software that displays inline comments in a compact way and allows discussion without the complexities of a forum or the topic limits of a normal blog comment thread. Its features include:

• Easy HTML-based templating.
• Unprecedented anti-spam measures using Spamguard Extra: the same anti-spam system used with the Writer’s Block CMS.
• Keep all past comments or automatically delete extras as they get pushed off the page.
• Remembers commenters so they can spend their time commenting instead of filling fields.
• URL-to-link conversion: http://www.desiquintans.com is automatically made into http://www.desiquintans.com.
• Oodles of customisability and well-documented source code makes it easy to make The Verbosifier do what you want.

Is it free?

The Verbosifier is free software under the GPL, but you have to link to http://www.desiquintans.com/verbosifier at the bottom of the main.htm template. Just one little link.

What do I need to run The Verbosifier?

• A server with support for PHP and mySQL (pretty much all of them do).
• At least mySQL 3․23.
• At least PHP 4 compiled with support for mySQL (if your hosting deal came with PHP and mySQL, this is already done).

How’s it look?

Better yet, how does it work? I've put up a live online demonstration so that you can fiddle with it and stuff. The two styles of shoutbox/tagboard shown in the demonstration are included in the download (in verb_template/main.htm).

Let me at it!

The current version is v1․1.

You can
Download The Verbosifier v1․0 (23KBs)
or
Read the Changelog

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