Well, I didn't recommend any special script from there. Quite obviously the one you picked seems to be one of the worst that are there. According to the index there are 51 guestbooks there, you said you just downloaded one of those.

Although I personally like depending on modules is a valueable thing in such a repository I think that scripts that don't need any other modules installed is a good thing. People that are searching for such scripts usually don't want to write ones themself and therefore depend on solutions that are easy to install. Without depending on modules makes the script even more useful to those guys. And the wish that it should not depend on an SQL database or flat file lets me think that the requester falls into this category. YMMV.

Finally I still think that there should be reasonably licenced stuff also in this list, I simply doubt that you belief every thing in the world should be GPLed (or better could). I also often dream of a brave new world ;-)
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Alfie

In reply to Re: Don't blindly recommend code by alfie
in thread Don't blindly recommend code by Ovid

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