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I want to make a guestbook kind of thing on my website but I dont know how... any ideas?
Which server sides scr ipt languages (like PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, ect.) does your webspace support?
You'll want your scr ipt to run on the server due to security reasons.
The next thing you might want to consider is how and where you want to store the posts. In a simple text file? In a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL?
A very cool, because free (you've usually to pay for an SQL database) thing is SQLite. It's a nearly complete database in one file but yet has most features of a proper SQL Database.
You might want to have a look at the following websites:
Hope that helps.
J
Keep in mind that, when you put up a guestbook, you are letting strangers modify your web site. If you don't have a means of moderation and don't spend the time to do the moderating, your guestbook will soon fill up with garbage from trolls.
Bill
Thing is, how do I make it so that if someone wants to send me email I can put up a form without reveling my email address since they got programs that takes the email and adds it to a spam list.
I can't get sendmail on the server enabled because they require ID verification and my country isnt supported...
My high school computer teacher told me to reduce spam I should sput a space before my email address
email address
Fakeemailaddress@yahoo.com
EX. with spam reduction technique
Fakeemailaddress @ yahoo .com
this is supposed to help prevent spam
Then you need a different web host. They are a dime a dozen. Yes, there are probably thousands of them. A web host should be selected who will run the software you want to run, not "you select your software to fit your web host".
Almost all web hosts take Visa and Mastercard, and almost none of them care at all where you are located. All they need is a charge card.
Access to sendmail is like really basic. I'd go elsewhere.
Bill
I prefer to go with a free provider for now... they want ID verification for sendmail because they dont want spammers but they wont accept ID from Taiwan... in the mean time I will just put nospam in the email address to discourage spammers...
Or you could make an image of your e-mail address. Spam bots won't pick those up. Click on the link to see our "moderators" page and you'll see an example of that. It is the next to last line of the page. Try to shade it with your mouse and you'll see that it is an image, not individual text letters.
Bill
"...There's no such thing as trolls"
"Then how do you explain the dead unicorns?"
it's true though, people tend to like to drop unwanted comments in guestbooks...