Making a Guestbook in Dreamweaver?

[barnettgs]

I had done with Guestbook on frontpage but one problem is, if I edited the guestbook page a bit then all the posted messages are gone when uploading!

I don't know if Dreamweaver has one or is it difficult to make one? Or am I better off with the Guestbook hosting site?

Thanks

[Nightfire]

You can't make one in just html. You need server side support to store all the entries.

[barnettgs]

Originally posted by Nightfire
You can't make one in just html. You need server side support to store all the entries.

Ok, I know what u are saying but I am asking how to make one because I don't know what does making a Guestbook involves, including a server side support. I have server support for Dreamweaver or correct me if I am wrong.

[Nightfire]

Your host needs to have serverside support, ie asp, php, cgi, etc. If it doesn't have any of those, then you'd have to get guestbook from a provider.

[murphyz]

You're probably best off writing a guestbook in .cgi which is hosted in the cgi-bin folder on your server. This allows your readers to enter their data into a page on your site and the cgi works in the background to allow the information thay submit to be written directly onto the page.

If you don't know any cgi I would recommend using a pre-built guestbook from elsewhere.

If you do want to do it yourself, ask on the cgi pages of these forums and make sure you learn a little about/and that your ftp software supports ASCII files and CHMOD.

Mxx