I built a Guestbook maintenance system back in 1999 using Perl. It uses flat text datafiles for storage, and supports templating control of output.
Halfway through development, I was introduced to PHP3 and MySQL. And I feel there’s no need to continue working on it. It’s been sitting on my hard drive for ages until I decided to release it after those years. It may not be relevant nowadays in the world of complex CMSes and stuff, but who knows, somebody might find a use there :)
I’ll let you judge it yourself:
The list of Guestbook entries page, with a link to the Add new entry page. This will be the where the visitors get to view and add entries.
The GuestMaster Admin screen. This is where you get to manage the posts. Username: admin, Password: admin. The change password function won’t work, though.
And the download links:
GuestMaster 0.1 Beta, Gzipped Tarball, 11kB
GuestMaster 0.1 Beta, Zipped, 16kB
I wouldn’t recommend you using it in production environment as it is not tested. Besides, it is flawed security-wise on many areas. I trust you people to figure it out in a short time.
I am offering this script with no warranty. No support or whatever. Use it at your own risk.
finally it is released. you should put ‘try/experiment on your own risk’.
ok fine. i just woke up and posted that comment. *blonde moment*
I remember those all days with Perl. Downloading ActivePerl over 56kB was such a pain in ass.