Hey :-)
Wow Ok, Got a lot to learn.. Didnt know that Matts guestbook script was such risky business... (altho my webserver is very dear to me - its just a personal playground, and I take a backup often, besides - I think the hiawatha webserver should be pretty secure) - But wow - many interesting suggestions - "swapping" file content with a temp text file seems actually quite understandable - but then - wow - the idea with a separate text file just listing all the stories is also a gem - because then one could - have links to a html file with all the different $names of peoples stories - so instead of just all stories being listed - one could click on someones name and their story would come up, that would be very cool.
Anonymous Monk: yeah, probably better to just start from scratch listing all the $variables - eh stupid question, why do you all put "my" in front of the scalars?

In reply to Re^4: appending to html at beginning ( use CGI for parsing cgi) by Limbomusic
in thread appending to html at beginning by Limbomusic

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