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Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 09/14/07 22:25
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:47:16 +0100, Krustov <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>Not having anything else on - i think i'll write a php guestbook
>suitable for windows webhosting .
>
>I say windows webhosting because i cant be arsed with all that linux
>permission crap .
Yer what? Windows ACLs are nicer to use?
If PHP is installed as a module in Apache the only requirement is that
it can be read - just like any other file served on a web server.
>Think about it , Man can go to the moon , But you still need to fart
>around with a simple setting on poxy linux webspace .
>
>But putting that aside , Do you have any likes or dislikes when it comes
>to guestbooks ? .
As an exercise they're great - really nice for getting used to things
like XSS exploits and database usage. In fact I must have re-used code
I wrote for a guestbook a few years back many times over.
However, as an element in a web-site they are dreadful. The thing you
learn firstly and foremost when web-developing is the concept of
minimilism. If something doesn't have a critical purpose it may as
well not be on the site; it makes it look amaturish and wastes
precious screen real-estate.
Mention guestbooks in c.i.w.a.site-design and you'll have be sprawling
at the bottom of a few kill files ;]
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Brendan Gillatt
www.brendangillatt.co.uk
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