How to: Install Advanced Guestbook

It seems we have a new support forum for the advanced guestbook.

http://spisas.com/forums/index.php

I was asked if I would like support that forum.
So here was my first post, I didn't want to keep this away from you guys.

If you have some questions or want to now more then you can find us there.

This is how to install the guestbook under Windows, Linux should be no different.
I’m not going in on how to install PHP or MySQL, because I think you’re already running these.

First copy the content to the directory of your choice.
Then open your browser and go to: http://www.mysite.com/guestbook_directory/install.php

You should then see this screen:

Point 1: Type here the name of your new database ( In my case “test”)
Point 2: Leave this alone (localhost)
Point 3: Type here your MySQL administrator name, if you didn’t make one when you installed MySQL then it should be “root”
Point 4: Type here your MySQL password, if you didn’t make one when you installed MySQL then it should be blank

Then Press “create new DB and table”

You should then see this screen:

Then Press “Click now here to setup the guestbook admin…”
If you don’t see this screen and get an error message, then try the following first:

Go to the directory where you have installed the guestbook and go to the admin directory.
Locate “config.inc.php” open it with notepad.
You should see the following:

<?php
/* database settings */

$GB_DB["dbName"] = "";
$GB_DB["host"] = "localhost";
$GB_DB["user"] = "root";
$GB_DB["pass"] = "";

This is the same setup as seen in picture 1.
Now type the folowing:

$GB_DB["dbName"] = "test"; Type here the name of your new database ( In my case “test”)
$GB_DB["host"] = "localhost"; Leave this alone (localhost)
$GB_DB["user"] = "root"; Type here your MySQL administrator name, if you didn’t make one when you installed MySQL then it should be “root”
$GB_DB["pass"] = ""; Type here your MySQL password, if you didn’t make one when you installed MySQL then it should be blank

Now save this setup.

Then open your browser and go to: http://www.mysite.com/guestbook_directory/install.php

You should get picture 1 again, type here the same as in “config.inc.php”
Then Press “create new DB and table” (if you get an error that the database already exists then delete the database in MySQL/data/)

You should then see picture 2.
Then Press “Click now here to setup the guestbook admin…”

You should now see this screen:

Now you can log in with the default password.

Point 1: test
Point 2: 123

And press “Submit”

You should now see this screen:

Here you can modify all the setting of the guestbook.
Don’t forget to change the default administrator name and password.

thnx..

very usefull

Ok what files are needed for the guestbook. All of em or just some of em?

-Wally

lillilwally@hotmail.com

Ok Im getting some weird error messages. Take a look

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Any idea how to fix this?

-Wally[/img]

Thanks Jam'n, this is a good tutorial for beginners, a good explaining with the pictures

Hello Wally,

You need to copy the complete directory.