=> 👽 drunkpigeon

Honestly, I want to know how you people make guestbooks on here. I want to get into scripting to make my sites more interesting, but don't know where to start.

2 years ago · 👍 jo, gritty, anthrax, alexlehm

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=> 👽 alexlehm

I have started cgi-bin with Gemini using PHP recently and I have written a very small feedback script, a guestbook would be easy as well · 2 years ago

=> 👽 gritty

Gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20220308-how-to-build-a-gemini-application.gmi · 2 years ago

=> Gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20220308-how-to-build-a-gemini-application.gmi

=> 👽 jo

oh dont forget the # before the first line ofc, idk why it threw that out · 2 years ago

=> 👽 jo

!/bin/bash

guestbookfile=/path/to/file

address=gemini://redirect.address

decode_percent_encoding(){

echo "$1" | sed 's@+@ @g;s@%@\x@g' | xargs -0 printf "%b"

}

if [[ "$QUERY_STRING" != "" ]]; then

message=$(decode_percent_encoding "$QUERY_STRING")

sed -i.bak -e "/✍ sign/a>"$message"\n- at $(date +'%H:%M on %d.%m.%Y')\n

" "$guestbookfile" #replace '✍ sign' with the line you wanna start the guestbook under

printf "30 $address\r\n" #redirect link

else

printf "10 leave a message\r\n" #input field

fi · 2 years ago

=> gemini://redirect.address

=> 👽 jo

oh i can help with that! i asked pretty much the same question on here a few months ago and its actually really not that hard. for a guestbook script youll need a capsule with cgi-support, i'm not sure how this works on yesterweb sadly but i can comment the script to my own, very basic guestbook hold on · 2 years ago