# Creating a guestbook, without php

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**Created:** [February 18, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-guestbook-without-php/101986 "2004-02-18T16:59:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![drumaboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@drumaboy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/drumaboy)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-guestbook-without-php/101986/1 "2004-02-18T16:59:19Z")

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:disco: hi,  
im a young web site creator,and i make websites for my band. i have recently got flash MX, and want to create a simple guestbook. but i dnt rlly want to go into the php side of things, and would rather stick to xml/html etc, as i do not thoroughly understand complex programming liek php. i was wondering if you could help, as i am bored with the current guestbook on my homepage (using Lycos).  
please help, hope you can

ollie (drumaboy)  
:bandit: :bandit: :tb: :luigi: :pir: :rocker: :ro: :sleep: :bounce:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-guestbook-without-php/101986/2 "2004-02-18T18:17:16Z")

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You can’t do that coz you need a server-side/backend script to save the entries to txt/xml/database.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-guestbook-without-php/101986/3 "2004-02-19T01:42:23Z")

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I made a real simple flat-file guestbook about a year ago, it was from a tutorial that i dont remember where from. Its two files. The php script that has a simple html form that sends all the variables to a text file. All you need is a webserver with php and chmod capabilities. If your not sure how to chmod a file just do a google search. Heres the guestbook --\> [http://www.janitar.com/guestbook.rar](http://www.janitar.com/guestbook.rar) | winzip decided to break so i used winrar get it from [zonelabs.com](http://zonelabs.com)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-guestbook-without-php/101986/4 "2004-02-19T09:03:19Z")

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As Eyez said, u will need PHP or some PERL such as CGI… can’t be done otherwise ☹ - don’t waste yr time trying