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Well I have this website about a month blog I make concerning a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Call me addicted or what for making a blog of my playing expirience and achievements, but I am asking here due to my WebPages techinical details. It's hosted on geocities so although I would like to add frames (and have already scripted them) I can't because Geocities doesn't support frames.
My Blog WebPage: My Blog WebPage:
Anyways as you can tell from my WebPage my HTML is fairly basic and requires no special tags whatsoever. I'm thinking of adding tables, which I know how to do but is just a hassle as I can't picture in my head exactly where everything goes and have to preview it dozens of times.
Alright, finally, my question is HOW DO I SCRIPT A COMMENT BOX/GUSTBOOK?
I want to add a comment box on the Webpage instead of having my WebPage link to an external site. However most open source guestbooks I have found all use the external web site way. How do I script a comment box of my own, using what tags, and a brief description of their special properties. The main problem I am forecasting is how to have the comment box be updated on the WebPage for everyone to see every time someone enters a message. I'm guessing there is some way to embed the application/script into the WebPage directly, and also that I'm going to need to use Javascript, which I am scared out of my wits of because it looks so confusing.
Any ideas on whether the comment box can be in HTML or Javascript (or combination of the two)?
How far will I have to go into learning the language before I can produce the comment box (basic features, just Name, auto insert date/time,Message,maybe some font changes.)?
Thanks a lot guys.
My Blog WebPage: My Blog WebPage:
Anyways as you can tell from my WebPage my HTML is fairly basic and requires no special tags whatsoever. I'm thinking of adding tables, which I know how to do but is just a hassle as I can't picture in my head exactly where everything goes and have to preview it dozens of times.
Alright, finally, my question is HOW DO I SCRIPT A COMMENT BOX/GUSTBOOK?
I want to add a comment box on the Webpage instead of having my WebPage link to an external site. However most open source guestbooks I have found all use the external web site way. How do I script a comment box of my own, using what tags, and a brief description of their special properties. The main problem I am forecasting is how to have the comment box be updated on the WebPage for everyone to see every time someone enters a message. I'm guessing there is some way to embed the application/script into the WebPage directly, and also that I'm going to need to use Javascript, which I am scared out of my wits of because it looks so confusing.
Any ideas on whether the comment box can be in HTML or Javascript (or combination of the two)?
How far will I have to go into learning the language before I can produce the comment box (basic features, just Name, auto insert date/time,Message,maybe some font changes.)?
Thanks a lot guys.
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To make a comment box, you need both Javascript and HTML. HTML for forms and JS for scripting it. Also you could use Server Side Pages which is a better approach. These scripts will mail you whatever the visiter has written in the form.
Another piece of advice: please make your problem concise and precise, so that it could be easy for us and other to read.
Another piece of advice: please make your problem concise and precise, so that it could be easy for us and other to read.
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Originally Posted by Niklas
HOW DO I SCRIPT A COMMENT BOX/GUSTBOOK?
If you want a guestbook you should have a database (mysql) and read/write from/to it using PHP.
But since you can't even use frames, I'm guessing this could be a problem... Perhaps you should think about changing provider.
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Originally Posted by Niklas
How far will I have to go into learning the language before I can produce the comment box
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Originally Posted by Niklas
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Regards Niek
Last edited by niek_e : Nov 17th, 2006 at 8:00 am.
Want better/more replies to your questions? Wrap your code in [code] [/code] tags!
do NOT pm me for help, in the best case, you'll get ignored
do NOT pm me for help, in the best case, you'll get ignored
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Re: How to create a Comment Box/Guestbook in HTML Hey dude it is very very easy..Read a little about ASP and MS ACCESS..Learn how to connect them together and then use your brain and I am sure you'll figure it out..It aint hard if you try..Here I'll give you a little push..
Connection String to MS ACCESS DATABASE
Now Lets see How to retrieve info from the database.
Connection String to MS ACCESS DATABASE
OleDbConnection Con = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\YourDatabase.mdb");Now Lets see How to retrieve info from the database.
OleDbConnection Con = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\\YourDatabase.mdb");
OleDbCommand Com = new OleDbCommand("Seleect * From CommentBox", Con);
try
{
Con.Open();
OleDbDataReader dReader = Com.ExecuteReader();
while (dReader.Read())
{
//Make sure your database file has a table named "CommentBox"
//Simple Example...Here is your "CommentBox" table layout
/* Comments | Users | Password
=======================================
Blah Blah | Meee | MyPassword
=======================================
And sooo on...
*/
//Now lets retrieve the password from the user named Meee
string Pass = dReader.GetString(2);
string User = dReader.GetString(1);
string Comment = dReader.GetString(0);
//There ya go..Have fun coding bro..
}
Con.Close();
}
catch (OleDbException ex)
{
Response.Write(ex.ToString());
} Last edited by hax_hp : Nov 26th, 2007 at 2:51 am.
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