SIMPLE Guestbook

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Dwight Duckstein

Ok - this is the world's dumbest guy with html asking about web site
software.

I am looking for a guestbook application that would reside on the server as
part of my own website files, and work, without having to know how to code
the paths and so forth.

I've tried a couple freebies I found, and they all require setting variables
in a file, and I cannot seem to get them working at all.

I am currently using an offsite guestbook, and don't want to if I don't have
to.

Also would like a simple counter...

Thanks!
Dwight Duckstein, MCP
 
"Dwight Duckstein" is looking for a guestbook application that would reside
on his server without setting variables in a file.
I doubt you'll find a freebie with no variables to adjust at all. This is
about the simplest guestbook ever but you still need to personalise 2 or 3
things in the "home.php file", upload the folder to your server and set
permissions to one file (data.dat) to 777 - universal read and write.
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Full instructions are included. Demo and download here: www.ooapp.com
 
Dwight said:
Ok - this is the world's dumbest guy with html asking about web site
software.

I am looking for a guestbook application that would reside on the server as
part of my own website files, and work, without having to know how to code
the paths and so forth.
Click to expand...

Are you using a free website, or paid hosting? The chances are that if
the former applies, you will have to make do with whatever scripts the
site makes available because it probably wont allow custom scripts.
 
I'm using the free 20M site my paid DSL ISP allows me to use..

I will make another attempt with the links in other responses, and see what
happens.

Thanks to all who have responded - I'll keep you posted.

Dwight Duckstein, MCP
 
Not completely sure, but this looks like another externally hosted
guestbook. I was really hoping for a simple to set up guestbook and counter
that I can host.

Thanks for the input!

Dwight Duckstein, MCP
 
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

This one seems to be working fine. Very simple to set up and works quite
well.

Now I need to set about copying the messages from my previous attempt into
this one.

Should be fun!

Thanks again!

Dwight Duckstein, MCP
 
Hello, Dwight!
You wrote on Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:56:01 -0600:
I am looking for a guestbook application that would reside on the
server as part of my own website files, and work, without having to
know how to code the paths and so forth.
Click to expand...
I've tried a couple freebies I found, and they all require setting
variables in a file, and I cannot seem to get them working at all.
Click to expand...

This is my favourite one: really, really, really easy to install and
configure...

http://www.lkcc.org:8500/index.php
Also would like a simple counter...
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Give a look here:
http://www.tuttophp.altervista.org/script-ing.php

Kindly regards.
 
Ok - next question - my pages are all html pages created with Word XP. The
counters require a php file. I have no idea what that is, nor how to create
one. My page I was wanting to put the counter on is either the index.html
or TOCframe.html.

???????

Thanks!

Dwight Duckstein, MCP
 
Ok - next question - my pages are all html pages created with Word XP. The
counters require a php file. I have no idea what that is, nor how to create
one. My page I was wanting to put the counter on is either the index.html
or TOCframe.html.
Click to expand...

First you need to know if your server has PHP installed. If not, the
counter will not work. If you are on a paid server, you are probably
ok. Most free servers do not offer PHP.

If PHP is installed on your server, insert the code needed to make the
counter work into your index page and rename index.html to index.php.

Good luck
 
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