You may change other basic setting and HTML or a part of HTML (see the advice for a little learnt).

Or you may poke into email (see the advice for a good HTML user).

Handling inputs
Now you may try some real "Perl" scripting.

############### # main script # ###############      :      : $value =~ s/%0D%0A/<br>/g; $value =~ s/%0A/<br>/g; $value =~ s/%0D/<br>/g; $value =~ s/%09/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/g; $value =~ s/%3C/&lt;/g; $value =~ s/%3E/&gt;/g;

The three lines at the top change return_key (LF+CR for windows, LF for UNIX and CR for Macintosh) to <BR> (HTML tag for return_key). Replace them by $value =~ s/%0D%0A/ /g; etc. or a space instead of <br> and you can ignore all "return" and put entire article into one paragraph. DMB treats one line as one article. So you need some change of a line break.

The middle one, $value =~ s/%09/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/g; changes a tab to five spaces. Firstly, HTML cannot understand an ordinary tab. And secondly, I assigned a tab a special meaning within the perl scripting. So, this conversion is technically necessary. But if you do not like it, you may have a space instead of 5 &nbsp; or $value =~ s/%09/ /g;.

arch Board does not accept HTML tags sent by guests. If you want HTML tags able, delete the last two lines
$value =~ s/%3C/&lt;/g;
and
$value =~ s/%3E/&gt;/g;
But you do so only after you learn the message board security and understand the risk you are going to take.

Time of an article
The time a guest posted an article is Greenwich mean time by default.

###################### # new message to bbs # ######################      :      : $posted = gmtime($time);

It can be replaced by $posted = localtime($time); for the local time. But this local time is the server's time, not necessary yours. Suppose you are one hour ahead of Greenwich time, you are (60 x 60 ) = 3600 seconds fast. You can have the time $posted = gmtime($time + 3600); for your local time.

Guest's email address
And the way an email address is written

###################### # new message to bbs # ######################      :      : if ($data{'email'}) { $gname = "<a href=\"mailto:$data{'email'}\">$data{'name'}</a>"; } else { $gname = $data{'name'}; }

The above line integrates the guest's email address into his name using "mailto" tag. Please note you need to use \" instead of " inside of " - ie $gname = "...";. If you want to have an email an independent item, change it to

###################### # new message to bbs # ######################      :      : $data{'email'} = "<a href=\"mailto:$data{'email'}\">$data{'email'}</a>";

and do not forget to have $data{'email'} and $data{'name'} instead of $gname somewhere in ### new data ### .

Ban access
You can limit the access by checking the IP address, $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} or checking the browser, $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}. To ban an IP address, go to

################ # main script # ################ if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} ne 'POST') {

and insert

################ # main script # ################ if ($ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} eq '123.456.78.90') {die "You cannot be here";} if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} ne 'POST') {

Replace 123.456.78.90 by an IP address of someone you do not like. Also you can have better wording than You cannot be here.