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guestbookmx

GuestbookMX is a Flash guestbook that displays comments and allows users to post comments into it. It uses a PHP script and MySQL in order to store the data, but can work with just about any scripting language that can accept standard CGI POST submissions.

The advantage of GuestbookMX is that the user doesn't need to refresh the entire page to see new entries. The guestbook has a refresh button on it, as well as an auto-refresh feature that makes it update itself every amount of seconds. It's cool when you're at the page and see a new comment pop up shortly after somebody posted it!

guestbookmx is free for non-commercial and educational use. For commercial inquiries or special requests, please contact me.

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guestbookmx source & php script ZIP (45K) temporarily unvailable
guestbookmx install intstructions TXT (4K)  

Project Log - Changes Date Version
  • Re-included the regular Flash MX FLA version in the archive for people who haven't updated to MX 2004 yet.
  • Changed $_POST to $HTTP_POST_VARS for backwards compatibility with older PHP versions.
 05/12/03 1.05
  • Updated guestbook for MX 2004 & Flash Player 7 compatibility.
  • Fixed bug in guestbook PHP script
  • Limited default number of records to grab in PHP script to the latest 15 for performance reasons.
 09/16/03 1.04
  • Restructured program completely
  • Fully commented source code
  • Added auto-refreshing
  • Added data load progress bar
  • Preparing for release
 07/07/02 1.02
  • Changed guestbook display to HTML
  • Added MySQL support to PHP script
  • Fixed bugs in transmission
 07/07/02 1.02
  • Added loadVars object
  • Set up onLoad handler to process data
  • Fixed bugs in preprocessing
  • Developed basic PHP server (no DB)
 07/07/02 1.01
  • Created interface
 07/06/02 1.00

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