in need of a simple guest book

[edd_jedi]

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.

[moojoo]

You could build one very quickly in Dreamweaver.

[edd_jedi]

any clue as to how?

[vbw]

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...

[edd_jedi]

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.

[vbw]

but it hasn't worked yet, despite trying 3 different ways of doing it.

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...

[mtgmaster]

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

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

[JacobHaug]

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.

[edd_jedi]

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:

Code: Select all

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!

[grahame]

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

should read

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

[edd_jedi]

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.