Introducing Genevieve Millie Alexander
aka "Project Becticia"


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Born: 02-13-2006
Birth Time: 7:53 am
@ Banner Baywood Medical Center
Weight: 7 lbs 1 oz
Length: 20 in.
 

<% ' This is used to control whether or not we empty the guestbook at ' the first hit after midnight. We do it just to keep the list ' short. You'll probably want to set this to False Const bDeleteEntries = False ' Allows us to easily clear the guestbook if we notice someone is ' getting rude! All you need to do is pass it ?force=anything ' Possibly something else you might not want. To disable it comment ' out the Request.QueryString line and uncomment the "" one. Dim bForce bForce = Request.QueryString("force") 'bForce = "" ' Now that we're done implementing features you probably won't want, ' let's get to the actual script... Dim strFile ' String variable to store the path / file we write to ' I use MapPath here to make the script somewhat location independent. ' If I specified the physical path, you'd need to edit it to run this ' on your own server. This way it should work fine as long as it's in ' the same directory as the guestbook file. The include line also ' needs to be changed if you change this! This file needs to exist ' BEFORE you run this script! strFile = Server.MapPath("./guestbook.txt") ' If the script doesn't have anything posted to it we display the form ' otherwise we process the input and append it to the guestbook file. If Request.Form.Count = 0 Then ' Display the entry form. %>

Guestbook


Date Name Comment
<% Else ' Log the entry to the guestbook file Dim objFSO 'FileSystemObject Variable Dim objFile 'File Object Variable ' Create an instance of the FileSystemObject Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' Open the TextFile (FileName, ForAppending, AllowCreation) Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFile, 8, True) ' Log the results ' I simply bold the name and do a
. ' You can make it look however you'd like. ' Once again I remind readers that we by no means claim to ' be UI experts. Although one person did ask us if we had a ' graphic designer! I laughed so hard that I almost hurt myself! ' objFile.Write "" objFile.Write "" objFile.Write now objFile.Write "" objFile.Write Server.HTMLEncode(Request.Form("name")) objFile.Write "" objFile.Write Server.HTMLEncode(Request.Form("comment")) objFile.Write "" objFile.WriteLine "" ' Close the file and dispose of our objects objFile.Close Set objFile = Nothing Set objFSO = Nothing %> <% End If %>