13Feb/102
How to add a simple guest book to your site
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So How to add a simple guest book to your site? The code below will help visitors to your site to read your guestbook entries and post a message of their own. Very simple setup, only requires you to change 4 settings. This code uses MySQL to store the entries.
<?php /** * Create the table in your MySQL database: * * CREATE TABLE guests ( * id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, * name varchar(50) NOT NULL, * message varchar(255) NOT NULL, * date timestamp(14) NOT NULL, * PRIMARY KEY (id) * ) * * Change the database login settings to your own * * The script is now ready to run */ // Change these to your own database settings $host = "localhost"; $user = "username"; $pass = "password"; $db = "database"; mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) OR die ("Could not connect to the server."); mysql_select_db($db) OR die("Could not connect to the database."); $name = stripslashes($_POST['txtName']); $message = stripslashes($_POST['txtMessage']); if (!isset($_POST['txtName'])) { $query = "SELECT id, name, message, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%D %M, %Y @ %H:%i') as newdate FROM guests ORDER BY id DESC"; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { ?> <p><strong><?php echo $row->message; ?></strong> <br />Posted by <?php echo $row->name; ?> on <?php echo $row->newdate; ?></p> <?php } ?> <p>Post a message</p> <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"> <p><label for="txtName">Name:</label><br /> <input type="text" title="Enter your name" name="txtName" /></p> <p><label for="txtMessage">Your message:</label><br /> <textarea title="Enter your message" name="txtMessage"></textarea></p> <p><label title="Send your message"> <input type="submit" value="Send" /></label></p> </form> <?php } else { // Adds the new entry to the database $query = "INSERT INTO guests SET message='$message', name='$name', date=NOW()"; $result = mysql_query($query); // Takes us back to the entries $ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; header ("Location: $ref"); } ?>
The code above is referenced from http://www.totallyphp.co.uk
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