guestbook tutorial?

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ive been trying to find a guestbook solution that doesnt need me to have an account on an external website because TWO of the websites i previously used for guestbooks have disappeared since ive had my website (so since like 2019 or so) and i dont wanna risk all my messages again.

but so far none of the things ive tried worked. first i tried bellabook and kaelchips’ php guestbooks that were linked in the resource list. both give me errors when sending messages. then i tried virtual observer’s comment widget, which uses a google sheet, but for some reason it displays “undefined” as the name of every commenter even though the name appears correctly in the google sheets.

ive been tryng to look for a php guestbook tutorial instead, but it seems every page that calls itself a tutorial just tells me to copy paste a bit of code without actually explaining any of it, which means that i cant edit the fields to fit what i want more AND if anything goes wrong ill have no idea how to fix it. so im asking if anybody knows any good tutorials to make a simple guestbook? or if anyone has any idea how to fix the undefined name issue with the comment widget? any help is appreciated.

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turns out the comment widget wasn’t working becase there was an extra space in the column names of the google sheets that i hadnt noticed… this is why you dont try new things at 9PM :sob:
if anyone knows of a guestbook tutorial than actually explains what does what tho id appreciate it

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Here’s what I use;

Have a Guestbook (GitHub link)

I very lightly forked baccyflap’s guestbook, which was already beautifully simple. I mostly just made it easier to style and use, but I thought people might find that helpful. I wrote new instructions in the ReadMe that I think explain how to use it a little more.

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