How to make a Guest Book and a Counter

[christofides]

Hello Again,
I need some Serious Help.
I want to make (1) A Guest Book, and (2) A Counter
To be honest I have never done any of the two, and I do not know how to do them.

Can anybody give me any advice?

Thank you very much in Advance

[Derek]

that should do both, I think u can do it with javascript but php is better, dean and ziare the pros with php so I'll just let them answer, but if they don't answer pretty soon I'll just research the script for ya

[HTML]

christofides, If you want to put this on the page you have on your profile, you can seach around Geocities. If you do not care for what they have you can do a search for "remotely hosted scripts". You would not be able to install any off the shelf scripts though.

Dave

[Zaire]

If you want, I could whip up a quick php/mysql coutner..

Bascilly, in php, to make a counter, you do something like so

<?
$counter = '0';
++$counter;
echo "$counter";
?>

Basiclly, it starts the coutner at 0, and adds one to it, and displays it

If you want a demo of how this could work, you could use

<?
$counter = '0';
while($counter <= 10) {
++$counter;
echo "$coutner";
}
?>

[Zaire]

My while statement above doesn't "work"

This is correct,

<?
$counter = '0';
while($counter < 10) {
++$counter;
echo "$counter<br>";
}
?>

Now, do you know how to create tables in mysql and such?

[christofides]

Dear Zaire,
Thank you for your reply.
I know some basic about tables in html.

But I can not say that I know how to make tables in the mysql and such.
But I can learn, as I learned what I know up to now.
Is there in the web a guide or something, about that?

[QuietDean]

This is a great place for php - http://www.php.net

also, http://www.zend.com

php is a server-side scripting language, and probably the easiest language to learn out there.

Not sure if Geocities support it? Anyone know?

If you want 'plug in' guestbook, counter and all the other myriad goodies available the you won't go far wrong at

http://www.bravenet.com

Where BraveNet score is the ease of install. It's usually a case of cut+paste. However, using a 'plug in' you will not learn a thing about how it works. Also, you get banner ads.

Depends on your priorities. To be honest, I would learn about HTML indepth, CSS, Javascript, http and then server-side (php or asp). Then you will have really learned the nuts and bolts of web design/development.

[Zaire]

Javascript?

I don't think so.......

hehe

[QuietDean]

have you never mixed JavaScript and PHP? Maybe I got a few tricks I can show you...

[Zaire]

Hehe, maybe you shuold show me....

[HTML]

Back to square 1 yet? Geocities does support its own cgi scripts, not others. They do not support PHP, this is why I suggested to use those that Geocities offer or to try a "remotely hosted" script.

As Dean stated Bravenet does offer this, however I would not recommend there http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12486
mickey mouse operation

Dave

[christofides]

Hello again to all of you.
I am willing to learn all the tricks you can tell me.

to Dave: Thanks for the Info. I will have that in mind.

Christofides Costas

[QuietDean]

Gah. Cheers for the info, Dave. I'll stop recommending people that don't even understand how there own system works.


Chris, for remotely hosted scripts, Dave has a whole directory of tried and tested providers -

http://www.ahfb2000.com/cgi-bin/links/pages/Scripts/Remotely_Hosted/

Better than Bravenet!

[dbasia]

Hi,
I need help also i want to know i can make same bravenet Guest Book some where else bcoz on bravenet so many ads so that's y i dont like. some one can edit bravenet Guset Book code. anyone knows any PHP or CGI forums website so can install Guest Book code