I have no clue what I'm doing!, Along the lines of Comment Box's Options

[GuyNeedingHelp]

Hi!

I'm Anthony.









Alright, so my brother and I had a bet, (he's quite good at html, css, php, and I am not), we had a bet that I couldn't make a blog, on my own website, which I don't have a website so I'm using notepad and a folder on my computer as the directory. I'm very inexperienced, but I figure maybe someone on here could tell me or show me how to make a comment box, (which I have made already), so that after you post a comment the comment will reappear on the website above the comment box.

I have no clue as to how to do this, and it'd be great if someone could show/teach me so I can learn. I'm very interested in this and would like to build a website myself.


I found this website on google and it looks like you guys know what you're doing, thanks a lot. My deadline is 3 days to do this or I lose 20 bucks by the way, so any help is great.

Thanks a lot!

Anthony

P.S I have attached what I have done already (theres really nothing on it yet (trying to get the most complicated thing done first), but you'll see what the comment box looks like as of now, and possibly help me do this).

[pandy]

You can't do that with HTML alone. You need a programming language on the server. Which leads to that you can't do it on your desktop unless you install a web server and the programming language in question (alternatively use some other programming language available on your machine, but that's a little far-fetched).

[GuyNeedingHelp]

You can't do that with HTML alone. You need a programming language on the server. Which leads to that you can't do it on your desktop unless you install a web server and the programming language in question (alternatively use some other programming language available on your machine, but that's a little far-fetched).

What would you suggest I do to make this for real?

EDIT: Is there a way I could possibly make the comment box SEND data to a file that can veiw it? I think that would be just as fine, I just need a comment box that will send data, not just BE THERE.

It has to be working.

This post has been edited by GuyNeedingHelp: Feb 6 2008, 11:17 PM

[pandy]

Get a host.

[GuyNeedingHelp]

Get a host.

If that's not a option, is there any other way?

Thanks for the tips by the way.

[pandy]

Instsall a server and PHP, Perl or whatever language you want to use.

[GuyNeedingHelp]

Instsall a server and PHP, Perl or whatever language you want to use.

Alright, is that pretty complicated? After the server/php is installed, would there be steps to making the database for the comments.

[Darin McGrew]

Perhaps one of these PHP page-editing programs can meet your needs.

[Christian J]

You can actually do this with javascript alone, if it's just for your own browser. The comments would be stored in the URL's query string. This of course means that you must bookmark the URL in order to save the current comments, and other browsers will only display the comments if they somehow get the whole URL from you.

For real-life applications this is completely useless, so your brother may not accept this solution. :-P

[pandy]

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

[Christian J]

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

How does that thing work? I double-clicked, which brought up text fields, but I couldn't edit the text inside them.