JavaScript guestbook...

Chris Wilkinson

Hi there,

I wish to create a guestbook for a small business website I made.
The guestbook will be your standard 'form page' with button click
to 'send' type thing, plus another link to view the existing book.

It will be quite easy using JavaScript to collate the data from a
form into a 'database', and write the file with new stuff on my local
disk, but can Javascript write to disk on a webhosting server without
giving away the ftp userid and password normally required to upload
new site content?

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kaeli

In article <10************ ***@kyle.snap.n et.nz>,
mi**********@NO SPAMsnap.net.nz enlightened us with...

It will be quite easy using JavaScript to collate the data from a
form into a 'database', and write the file with new stuff on my local
disk, but can Javascript write to disk on a webhosting server without
giving away the ftp userid and password normally required to upload
new site content?

No. *

Why are you using javascript for this? Server-side languages are
generally used for forms processing, database interaction, etc.
Do you not have a server-side language on the host?
Not to mention the fact that people without javascript, including people
who are disabled and use special browsers, will be unable to use the
guestbook.
Guestbooks are always written in server-side languages, IME.
PHP is free and is on a lot of Unix/Linux webhosts these days. ASP tends
to be the one on Windows servers.
*in a normal client-side, default internet security environment. Note
that anything in javascript that the browser can see, I can see,
including password information.

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Jul 23 '05 #2

Dennis Marks

In article <10************ ***@kyle.snap.n et.nz>, Chris Wilkinson
<mi**********@N OSPAMsnap.net.n z> wrote:

Hi there,

I wish to create a guestbook for a small business website I made.
The guestbook will be your standard 'form page' with button click
to 'send' type thing, plus another link to view the existing book.

It will be quite easy using JavaScript to collate the data from a
form into a 'database', and write the file with new stuff on my local
disk, but can Javascript write to disk on a webhosting server without
giving away the ftp userid and password normally required to upload
new site content?

There are many free guestbooks available. Just do a search on "free
guestbook".

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