Tutorials
Tagboard for your website
I made a custom version of the tagboard I once used: click here to see it. This tutorial shows you how to use it.
- First of all your hosting provider needs to provide php. Most hosts do, but you might want to check it first, especially when you use free webspace.
- Download this file: Tagboard.zip. Many thanks to Venture Nine for their Tagger script, I only adjusted it a bit in size and colours.
- Unzip the tagboard file and place the tagboard folder in your website directory. For example:
- Open config.php and edit the variables in it.
- Open style.css and edit the style to your likings. If you're not familiar with stylesheets you only have to change the background colour, so it will match with your website (where it says this: BODY{background:#E1F0FF;).
- I've made the tagboard quite small, but you can change the size in the index.html if you want to.
- Upload the files to your server.
- Now you have to chmod the file entries.db to 666 so that people will be able to leave messages. If you won't do this you are the only one who is allowed to do write something, and that will be quite boring ;) Here's how:
- You can chmod your file through your ftp program, but it is also possible when your hosting provider offers a Plesk Panel.
Plesk Panel:
Click on your domain name and choose the "File Manager". Now you can go to the tagbaord directory and pick out the entries.db. Click on the permission link behind entries.db and check the boxes like this:
WS-FTP:
Log-in to the directory where the files are, and right click on the uploaded version of entries.db. A menu comes up, select chmod(unix). A window will come up with the chmod options. Now mark the first two rows of boxes (read and write) or enter the chmod number (666).
Cute-FTP:
Go to the uploaded entries.db and right click on that file, from the menu that appears choose "Change File Attributes" From the menu, select the "chmod(UNIX)" option. Now mark the first two rows of boxes (read and write) or enter the chmod number (666).
- Go to http://yoursiteaddress.com/tagboard to view your tagboard. You can ask people to test it for you.
- You can integrate the tagboard into you site with
an i-frame. Place the following code in the place where you want your
tagboard to appear:
<iframe name="tagboard" src="tagboard/index.html" width="110" height="205" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Maybe you have to adjust the width and the height if you've changed the index.html (step 6)
All done! Enjoy your tagboard :)
