Comments section on website

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moon7765

Hi,
I'm trying to make a website on a free web hosting website that doesn't
support PHP. I was wondering if there is any way that I could make a
"comment" section on the website through FrontPage, using HTML.

I wanted there to be the text box (3, one for name, email, and the comment),
a submit button, and a reset button, to clear all the text boxes. I've been
trying to figure this out for hours...
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

The host would have to support the FP extensions and you would have to publish the site to the
server via FP's http mode, then you could use the FP guestbook as is or modified.

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Andrew Murray

Does the host support frontpage extensions? Frontpage has a guest book
feature which uses the form submission web-bot - a guest book is what you
seem to be after.

Otherwise, form processing requires a scripting language of some sort (not
just PHP - there's Perl, ASP etc) - maybe if you want this you need a host
that supports one of those technologies.

Alternatively you could find a remotely-hosted guest book. You just signup
for an account, most of the procedure is automatically done for you and it
provides possibly some javascript or a link you place on your site, and it
links back to the third-party hosting the guest book.
 
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moon7765

Yes, the host supports FrontPage extensions.

I'm really confused with how the database and guest book features in
FrontPage work. I get the guest book page to appear, but when I preview it
and submit a comment, it doesn't work.

Is there something else I have to do after I select the guest book feature?
Or am I just missing something...

Thanks for your help.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

The guest book doesn't use a database. Did you create the guest book locally with a web open in FP,
and then used File Menu | Publish Web / Site to the remote server using
http://www.yourdomainname.com?

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Wes

It needs to be published to the server to work.

moon7765 said:
Yes, the host supports FrontPage extensions.

I'm really confused with how the database and guest book features in
FrontPage work. I get the guest book page to appear, but when I preview it
and submit a comment, it doesn't work.

Is there something else I have to do after I select the guest book
feature?
Or am I just missing something...

Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...
 
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Ronx

First, the page guestlog.htm must be moved to the _private folder.
FrontPage tends to place this in the same folder as guestbook.htm. The
_private folder has the correct permissions for writing comments to
guestlog.htm

Then the web must be published to server running the FrontPage extensions,
using FP's HTTP publish mode. You cannot test the guestbook locally unless
you are working in a server based web.

You may wish to rename the guestbook.htm to some other name - spambots seem
to be looking for guestbooks nowadays.
 
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