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Subject: Need help creating a guestbook of sorts
Posted by: KoGs
- [28401010] Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 13:51
Ok I must really suck. I have what I think is a good idea, but I am getting stuck on what would appear to be the easiest part. All I want is for someone to click on a link, which takes them to a form that needs to be filled out. Then I want that form to be posted. I don't care about them registering or setting up a password or anything like that. I just want them to fill out the form and have it posted.
I've tried so many guestbook tutorials for PHP, asp, asp.net, all in combination with mysql and ms access. I just can't seem to get it to work. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help. |
| 1 | WiddleAvi
ID: 33116113
Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 14:18
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I have used ASP and it should be fairly simple to setup. Create an access database. Have the form write the comments to the database. Have a second page read the database and post everything on there on that page.
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| 2 | KoGs
ID: 28401010
Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 14:28
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I guess most of my difficulties come when trying to implement them onto a server. I know ms access makes an actual mdb file, so presumably you need to upload that onto a webserver. But do I somehow have to pass the ftp login for that site in my form? So I need 2 seperate sets of id's and passwords, one for the site itself and another for the access of the database?
For MySQL I have absolutely no idea how it works. Me and Apache don't get along.
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| 3 | WiddleAvi
ID: 14126114
Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 15:26
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You need to create a DSN (either through your control panel or through tech support) that points to that database. In you ASP code you would then reference the DSN anytime you need to write or read data from the database
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| 4 | blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 15:28
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Get a blog on wordpress (this is free). Make one post that says "leave your comments here" and make it open to the public (easily done in the settings). Then wait for the replies.
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| 5 | KoGs
ID: 28401010
Thu, Feb 01, 2007, 15:46
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Not sure how that helps. But I am doing it anyways!
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