"dynamic" guestbooks??

[Badmojoman]

Hi all,

I want to know if it's possible to create 'dynamic' guestbooks. What I'm
looking to do is as follows:

1 - I have a database of book reviews. I've created an .asp page that
retrieves the full list of books only.

2 - When a visitor clicks on the name of the book, it opens up a separate
page (based on a template) that retrieves the specifics about the book
(author name, ISBN, etc...) from my database

What I'd like to do is to add a way for people to add comments to the
individual books pages, so I figured a 'guestbook' is the best way to do
this. However, I can't figure out is how to add a 'dynamic' guestbook to the
page template so that, even if I add new books, the new pages created from
those books will have a section for people to add their comments.

Is this possible with guestbooks? And am I on the right track with the
concept of 'dynamic' guestbooks?

Thanks so much in advance - this forum has been *very* helpful to me already!

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You don't want to use a guestbook
You need to add a form to your page and write the comments to your DB (to display later using your server side code)

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| Hi all,
|
| I want to know if it's possible to create 'dynamic' guestbooks. What I'm
| looking to do is as follows:
|
| 1 - I have a database of book reviews. I've created an .asp page that
| retrieves the full list of books only.
|
| 2 - When a visitor clicks on the name of the book, it opens up a separate
| page (based on a template) that retrieves the specifics about the book
| (author name, ISBN, etc...) from my database
|
| What I'd like to do is to add a way for people to add comments to the
| individual books pages, so I figured a 'guestbook' is the best way to do
| this. However, I can't figure out is how to add a 'dynamic' guestbook to the
| page template so that, even if I add new books, the new pages created from
| those books will have a section for people to add their comments.
|
| Is this possible with guestbooks? And am I on the right track with the
| concept of 'dynamic' guestbooks?
|
| Thanks so much in advance - this forum has been *very* helpful to me already!