All in one guestbook-shoutbox-chatroom

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Updated: 08/29/2005

All in one guestbook-shoutbox-chatroom: This little project came to be when I couldn''t find a shoutbox that was quite to my liking. I''m no expert with PHP, and the coding is far from elegant, but it seems to work well enough as a shoutbox/guestbook/chat script. I know it could be improved upon. After a couple of people asked if they could borrow the script, I kinda packaged it up as you see it now (mainly, I just moved some user variables to an include file for portability) Features: -Functions as a guestbook/shoutbox, but also as a quasi-chat room by virtue of a silent refresh - no annoyong IE ''tick'' - (it really isn''t very efficient as a chat room, but I''ve used it that way on my webcam site) -Displays the national flag of the visitor (courtesy of an IP lookup at www.hostip.info) -Tooltip display of IP, date, time of post on mouse over a comment (to reduce clutter) -Site owners comments receive a distinguishing highlight, and the site owners name cannot be used by others - see comments.inc.php for explanation