# Guestbook QUestion -- HELP!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-question-help/214299>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 27, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-question-help/214299 "2007-01-27T02:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![edv1972](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7993a0/32.png) [@edv1972](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/edv1972)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-question-help/214299/1 "2007-01-27T02:56:20Z")

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Ok,

I am using the guestbook posted on [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com), the guestbook is working good, except that it doesn’t display the name of the person who is leaving the message.

I followed the action script code but I am not sure I am doing wrong. The code for the myName entry is like this:

[LIST=1]  
[\*]After that, a _myName_ attribute is added to this new _\<entry\>_ node and assigned the value of the _myName_ input textfield:

myXML.firstChild.lastChild.attributes.myName = myName;  
Resulting in: [LEFT]\<?xml version=“1.0”?\>  
\<guestbook\>  
\<entry myName=“Flashmatazz”\>  
\</entry\>  
\</guestbook\> [/LEFT]  
[\*]Then a new \*\<myText\> \*node is created as a childnode of the newly created _\<entry\>_ node:  
myXML.firstChild.lastChild.appendChild(myXML.createElement(“myText”));  
Giving us the following: [LEFT]\<?xml version=“1.0”?\>  
\<guestbook\>  
\<entry myName=“Flashmatazz”\>  
\<myText\> \</myText\>  
\</entry\>  
\</guestbook\> [/LEFT]  
[/LIST][LEFT]What I don’t understand is why does it have a “flashmatazz” in there? When I enter a test on my guestbook it doesn’t display the name of the person there.

this is my client’s site:

[www.flavalive.com](http://www.flavalive.com) then go the “guestbook” section and take a look at what it does.

My guestbook.xml file has this coding:

\<?xml version=“1.0”?\>\<guestbook\>\<entry myName=“Flasmatazz”\>\<myText\>Upcoming soon!. \</myText\>\</entry\>\</guestbook\>

What do I need to do to make the xml file display the entry names?

HELP please!![/LEFT]

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**Author:** ![sdrib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@sdrib](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sdrib)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-question-help/214299/2 "2008-06-30T15:03:26Z")

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Hello, m new here so i don’t know if bumping old topics is allowed, so m sorry if its not.

Anyhow m having the same problem as ‘edv1972’

The guestbook works perfectly only i doesn’t display the posters name…  
I looked al day for solutions and tried modifieing the as , so far nothing worked… ☹

Anybody has an idea?

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**Author:** ![sdrib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@sdrib](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sdrib)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guestbook-question-help/214299/3 "2008-06-30T18:51:09Z")

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ok for those intrested theproblem is triggered by the use of adifferent font as weird as it may sound…