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hyBook - A Simple Guestbook Application in PHP and ASP
Description
hyBook is a simple guestbook script. It can be used as a simple
guestbook or as management tool of visitor's comments on multiple
topics. Features of hyBook include: page breaking; multiple topics;
IP address tracking; and administrator editing. It is written
in ASP and requires an MS Access database file.
Another version is available for PHP and MySQL.
Visit
"hyBook - A Simple Guestbook Application in PHP+MySQL" for more information.
hyBook is copyright © 2006 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights
reserved.
You may download hyBook from http://www.herongyang.com/hyBook for your
personal use only. Herong Yang makes no warranty of any kind.
You may not publish, rewrite or redistribute hyBook in any form
without explicit permission from Herong Yang.
Demonstration
hyBook has been installed to collect comments on Herong's tutorial book site. If you want to see how it works,
please visit this link.
You can also look at the screen shot of the user public page:
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Click here to see the enlarged version.
The admin private page looks like this:  .
Click here to see the enlarged version.
Screenshots of hyBook used by other Websites:
Download
Click here to download the latest version of hyBook.
Installation
1. Unzip hyBook.zip. You will see the files in one directory, hyBook.
2. Move hyBook\hyBook.mdb to your Web server in a database directory, like \cgi-bin.
Make sure that read and write permission has been given to hyBook.mdb on your Web server.
3. Update hyBook\_config.inc to make sure that the ogConn object is open to the hyBook.mdb
with the correct path name.
4. Update hyBook\commentAdmin.asp and hyBook\topicAdmin.asp to make sure that sgAdminPass is
assigned with your own password.
5. Move all files in hyBook directory to your Web server in a document directory, like \hyBook
assigned with your own password.
6. Test your installation with a Web browser opening to http://your_server.com/hyBook/default.asp.
You should see a sample topic with some sample comments.
7. Open http://your_server.com/hyBook/topicAdmin.asp?pass=your_password to update topics or add new topics.
8. Open http://your_server.com/hyBook/commentAdmin.asp?pass=your_password to manage comments.
hyBook Versions
Version 2006.07.01: Added page breaking. Added cross-topic access links.
Improved validation on submission. Improved default CSS properties.
Version 2006.04.01: Added validateContent() method to block URLs and email addresses in the content.
Added multiple-selection on admin pages. Fixed some bugs.
Version 2006.01.01: First release.
For More Information
If you are interested how hyBook is designed and coded, please see my ASP tutorial book:
http://www.herongyang.com/asp/hybook.html.
If you have any comments or questions, please share them in the forum:
http://help.herongyang.com/.
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