in need of a simple guest book

on a site i am currently doing, there is a page where i need 2 columns.
on the left is the list of past messages, and on the right a form to add a new one (name and comment.)

i have tried several online tutorials, and none of them have worked. i think this may possibly be because the server i am using only has php4.

i am not very savvy with php but do know a little, and am pretty sure it's not my own stupidity that has prevented the previous attempts from working!

so, if anybody knows of a tutorial for a simple guest book that will definitely work on older version of php, please let me know.

many thanks.

You could build one very quickly in Dreamweaver.

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any clue as to how?

You will need to use some type of scripting language, cgi,pl,php to either store the data in a flat text file or maybe a mysql db. Do you have anything in the works yet...

the server the site is hosted on has php 4 and mysql. i prefer the idea of a database to storing the messages in a txt file.

i have got as far as creating a database, putting in the necessary tables/fields, and uploading the php files. but it hasn't worked yet, despite trying 3 different ways of doing it.

i'm thinking either the tutorials i've been following have been for php5, or i'm making a mistake with the database somewhere.

if anybody knows of a php4< tutorial, i would like to give that a try first.

What is not working? What error messages do you receive if any?

Can you post your form code that submits the data so we can have a look...

Are you sure the database host/username/pass is filled in correctly?

If you can, post a link to where its hosted.

Post a link to where the guestbook is at and we will take a look and let you know what to fix. That is if you haven’t deleted it off of your server yet.

unfortunately i have deleted the files, however here is the first tutorial i tried and had most success with:

http://chipmunk-scripts.com/board/in...mID=43&ID=7519

interestingly, if you look at the comments at the bottom of this tutorial, i got exactly the same error as he did:

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in c:\wamp\www\MyGB\action.php on line 19

it seems he found out why, but did not care to elaborate. any ideas would be great!

mysql_query($insert) or die("Could not insert comment);

should read

mysql_query($insert) or die("Could not insert comment");

excellent, thanks so much for you help. all is working now.
there is also another mistake in the code, the display.php file has a redundant <hr> tag at the bottom.

you'd think he would test it before posting the tutorial!

cheers guys.