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I don't need to know how to do this yet- but just a question- how easy do you guys think it would be to convert my gbook so it works with an sql database? Because i don't know much php and I would like to know if I'm about to spend a looong long time doing something that would take much longer than I would expect. Anybody have an idea of how difficult it would be?

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You might be better of getting a MySQL-database driven guestbook script from the start.

No! gBook has the perfect mix between simplicity and ultra-featured, so I can edit everything so easily. Would it be really, really, really, impossibly difficult to convert gBook to SQL?

Hello yortzec,

yortzec wrote:Would it be really, really, really, impossibly difficult to convert gBook to SQL?

No, it is not impossible. See proof of it here (for very old version 1.33) viewtopic.php?t=340
But I can not tell you how much work it is, as i have never wrote any code for using MySQL.

All I can tell is that when I made my first modification of the guestbook (converting GBook version 1.33 to valid xhtml code and adding some functions) it took me a long time. Because it was also my first time working with php. When I would have to guess how many hours it took, I would say about 40.

So I would guess that if you want to write a MySQL version of GBook 1.7 it will take a long time too, to get acquainted with the code and converting it.

Greetings,
Henrie