flatPHPbook

What?

On this site you will find information about the PHPbook - a PHP based guestbook script that does not require a database like MySQL.
If you want to test it - my own guestbook is one.

The features of this script include:

• only needs PHP, stores all data in one single file.
• optionally display the entries on more than one page if the number of total posts exceeds a set amount of posts per page, with easy navigation
• admin mode: makes it easy to delete unwanted posts, and lets the admin stay logged in (via php sessions) until explicit logout
• skinnable via annotated external css file
• previewing the post before it is submitted with the same formatting used in the guestbook
• released freely under the GPL, so you can modify it to your liking

Why?

I started this script because I wanted to move to a PHP-yes-but-MySQL-no web hoster, and did not find any (free) script that fit my technical and aesthetic needs. So I just wrote my own! The name is not too nice, I know, but phpBook and phpGB were already taken, and I wanted to include the feature of storing the data in a flat file.

Requirements

To install it on your website, you need PHP version 4, and that's basically it. I cannot guarantee it will run, but I at least would like to hear from difficulties so I can make the script better.

Download

This is now an official SourceForge.net project. Check out the project homepage.