Guestbook Script

[Norman]

Hi. I need a guestbook script for my next site. I would like to develope it personally, but I don't know where to start. Do you know some nice guestbook free scripts?Edit: Oh, I've found this: http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/mysql-php-guestbook.php

[Xtazy]

i used this one...so, you create a new PHP file named addbook.php , which code is this:

<?php(isset($_POST['message']))?$message=$_POST['message']:$message='';(isset($_POST['name']))?$name=$_POST['name']:$name="";if ($message != ''){  $message = str_replace ("\n","<br>",$message);  $message = strip_tags ($message, '<br>');  $newRow = '<div class="viewGuestbook">' . ($message) .		  '<br>' . date('d.m.Y H:i') . ' - ' . strip_tags ($name) .		  '</div>';		    $oldRows = join ('', file ('guestbook.txt') );  $fileName = fopen ('guestbook.txt', 'w');  fputs ($fileName, $newRow . chr(13) . chr(10) . $oldRows);  fclose ($fileName);}include ("readbook.php");?>

next one: readbook.php :

<div class="guestbookTop"><a href="postform.php">Write</a> to a guestbook<br><br></div><?php$fileName = file ("guestbook.txt");$rows = count ($fileName);  if ($rows > 10){	if (!isset ($row) )	{		$row = 0;	}	print ("<table class=\"guestbookLinks\"><tr><td width=\"50%\">");  	if ($row > 0)	{		echo "<div class=\"nextPage\"><< <a href=\"readbook.php?row=" . ($row - 10) . "\">Next 10</a></div>";	}		print ("</td><td width=\"50%\">");	if ( ($rows - $row) > 10)	{		echo "<div class=\"previousPage\"><a href=\"readbook.php?row=" . ($row + 10) . "\">Previous 10</a> >></div>";	}			print ("</td></tr></table>");	   for ($i = $row; $i < ($row + 10); $i++)	{		echo $fileName [$i];	}}else{	  for ($i=0; $i < $rows; $i++)	  {		  echo $fileName [$i];	  }}  ?><div class="guestbookUp"><br><br><br><br>	<a href="postform.php">Write</a> to a guestbook</div>

and postform.php :

<div class="normalText"><form action="addbook.php" method="post">Message<br><br><textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="7" class="textbox"></textarea><br><br>Name<br><br><input type="text" name="name" size="48" class="textbox"><br><br><input type="submit" value=" Submit " class="textbox"></form></div>

And also create a .txt file named guestbook.txt , where the messages from your guestbook will be saved...It's not smth sophosticated, but it's good enough

[Norman]

Thank you, Xtazy. Another great web site for guestbooks: http://www.flash-guestbook.com/. They are really pretty.

[aspnetguy]

they look nice but take a long time to load.

[Norman]

Yes. Mhh, I think I will download a simple script.. and I will take the tame to edit the HTML code in order to have something more pretty and unique.

[Norman]

This is the best Guesbook I've found: http://www.keil-software.de/demos/sk/index.php. It cost, but it's really great, in my opinion.

[noan]

what language do you want to code it in?

[Norman]

I will host my website on a server with MySQL. So, probably, I will chose PHP&MySQL.

[Err]

I just found this one today: http://hypersilence.net/silentum_guestbook.phpIt looks to be a nice script. There's also various other things of interest.

[Daniz]

What about a CSS guest book? Id like one on CSS. If u find one tell me

[Synook]

You can't create a guestbook with just CSS, as CSS can't perform actions, respond to events (more than through pseudo-classes), or save and retreive text data. You will need to use a server-side language to save the comments.