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- This guestbook is released into the public domain by myself, the author.
-
- Purpose:
- This code provides a basic guest book for your web page. It creates a flat
- test file which logs the visitor's name, email address, www page, reference,
- and comments. A separate utility converts this text file to an html page
- which your visitors can view.
-
- General:
- Examine the cmd and html files and edit any path statements you wish. You
- should also edit the reference selections in the form to fit your site. You
- should also remove all references to my WWW site and replace them with your
- own - this should be easy to locate in the text files. I have provided all
- the graphics images I used and you are certainly free to replace them with
- your own art.
-
- How it works:
- The myguestbook.html file includes a form which the visitor fills in. This
- form uses a post method which calls the guestbook.cmd file which should be
- located in the cgi-bin directory. The guestbook.cmd saves the new entry
- in a file called comments.txt in a last-in top-down order (the newest entry
- is at the top of the list).
-
- A cron process runs once each hour which calls getcomments.cmd which processes
- this comments.txt file. My reason for doing this was to provide an opportunity
- to preprocess the comments prior to making them available on the comments page.
- Why? There are people out there who like to screw up fun things with vulgarity,
- and there are other mischevious people who like to leave comments which will
- crash your page.
-
- What's left?
- This original work has no means for serializing access to the comments.txt
- and comments.html files so in the unlikely case that two or more people access
- them at the same time there will be a locked file problem. I no longer have a
- WWW page so will not likely complete this work but it was fun enough and
- complete enough to put out there for others to carry on.
-
- What does it cost?
- Nothing, but if you use it send me your URL so I can leave a comment!!
-
- Parting comment:
- I suggest you consider leaving the following statement of appreciation on your
- version as a courtesy to the inspiration for this project.
-
- This guestbook service is based on that provided by:
- <A HREF="http://lpage.com/"> Lpage.com</A>
-
-
- Dennis Peterson
- dpeterso@halcyon.com
- OS/2 Northwest BBS
- Bellevue, WA
-