I am looking for a tutorial on how to build my own guestbook for Dreamweaver MX

Oh man, I just found this on google and I'm bumping it on the off chance some one will reply to either this or mine.

here is a tutorial:

www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/t_view.asp?gkSortCat=asp&image.x=10&image.y=7

perhpas it's what you need.

Javier

Perhaps, most of it is in english this is good.

Remember we are novices lol 'VB script'? 'FSO' I'm just about getting there but sometimes what you need is 'Click this, it does this, and this is why'.

There's so little of that out there regarding anything to do with computers it's no wonder it's becoming an exclusive club.

Gets off soapbax... sorry chaps thanks for the help <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Edit, it makes sense right up to the bit were it starts banging on about variables. This is what I mean, it was within reach when it stayed wysiwyg even the code for the form was accesable to the novice. but then it went purple and green and didn't explain what it was doing.


For example ... "Here is the script we are going to use for creating and writing to the text file. I have commented it all the way through so that you can see what's going on (comments in purple)."

&lt;%
'FIRST WE DEFINE ALL THE VARIABLES WE ARE GOING TO USE
dim strFileName
dim file
dim fso
dim varName
dim varEmail
dim varMessage

That's not helpful, that's like saying here's a car engine, can you see it through the blindfold?

I will struggle on regardless.

Edited by - lead sharp on 19 Feb 2006 12:24:56

A little struggle is good. Unless you are not willing to learn, in which case you can go and buy a solution that suits your needs.

Now, If you read the beginning of the tutorial www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_asp/guestbook/simple_gbook.asp
there is even a "download the files" link. Where you can obtain the final product of that excercise. Simpler? I don't think so.

Good luck.

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I am digging away and trust me this is the most help I've had from anywhere, but I think my problem is that when it says something like...

"However, we are just going to use it to create, write to and read from a text file named "gbook.txt"."

Does that mean the guest book generates the .txt file or what? this isn't clear. I'm serious somtimes you really do want to be shown WHY and HOW, there's a lot of assumption made.

Im getting there I really am and my willing to learn is there but learning is only as good as the info given, and for the most part that info itself needs defineing.


For example it's a given to save the file as a .asp, yes? I accept that but why does it have to be .asp? (minor point I know but sometimes knowing the why helps the knowing how)

Edited by - lead sharp on 19 Feb 2006 17:53:23

From DW's own help file...

"The purpose of this dialog box is to specify a testing server Dreamweaver can use to process dynamic pages for authoring purposes."

Why not simpley say 'Type the address of the folder your web page is on in this box, so DW knows where your page is so it can test it.'?

see?



Edited by - lead sharp on 19 Feb 2006 18:45:32

OK. lets start from the beginning:

1.- You want a guest book.
2.- what environment do you have to create this? Windows IIS, Apache?
3.- what are the tools you are using? I would assume Dreamweaver MX or are u using Front Page or any of the various other applications?

Knowing all of that, you can decide if you want kind of technology to use to create your Guest book.

Also you can look at www.aspin.com/home/tutorial they also have many resources to learn and sometimes already made solutions free and some not free.

I am learning as well and sometimes question the why of many things, many times my questions receive no replies and that is worse than getting half a reply.

Good luck Andy.



Edited by - am7555 on 19 Feb 2006 20:07:09

You're a pal <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

I'm useing DW MX 2004, I'm on windows XP pro useing tiscali as a server.

Re the half answers, I know what you mean, sometimes as a novice that's all you can ask and so long as you hold up your lack of knowledge and say I'll fill in any missing blanks there's really no need for some of the 'help' I've recieved elsewhere, nuff said.

I mean it's ironic, I have done a lot with FP and it's quite versatile ecxept with the bloody extensions not being supported by most hosts and thus making a guestbook in FP is pretty useless.

Many thanks, more power to the novice! lol

Do you know what kind of language Tiscali supports? because it's the first time I hear about it.
html, ASP or PHP. You could install IIS server on your machine you know and test your projects there before you upload them to youe live server. Anyways, I don't know hwat to tell you other than find out hwat kind of support you have for any of those languages and go from there.

Cheers,

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