Topic: PHP Script

[curlin]

    I hope you don't mind the newbie question 

    Reading on this forum about creating the guest book in a bottom block using a php script. I thought it would just involve adding some code in the block but when i unpacked the rar file, it contained several files. Could someone kindly explain how and where i install this php script?

    Using latest versions of smf and SP.

                                 Thank You Very Much

[dtek]

I am a noob too. Was it a mod you downloaded? If it was then you need to use the package installer. If it was just some php from some site then I have no idea.

[AngelinaBelle]

Are you talkning about the guestbook mentioned in http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=4098.msg25796#msg25796?
 
That is a standalone Guestbook, which doesn't use SMF. That zip file comes with a readme that tells you what to do to install the Guestbook. You'll need to put all those files in a directory (call it guestbook, maybe), follow the instructions in the readme.  If you look at the index.php that comes with it, it just runs the code in gbook.php. You might like to try it out standalone (from its index.php) before you try embedding it in a SimplePortal block.
 
What you want in the SimplePortal block is probably just the part the displays Guestbook entries.  So  you'll need to find that in gbook.php, take just that part of the code, and copy it into your SimplePortal block.
 
I think Nathaniel's suggestion of using a "Guest Board" as your guestbook, then displaying the recent posts from that board in a recent post block, titled "Guest Book" on your web page may be a simpler way of doing this. That guestbook has an admin panel, a banned IP list, a word censor list, etc.  All stuff you already have to administer in SMF. Why duplicate all of that? The less options and the less code you have to maintain, the better.