shoutout box

[anish]

Well, first we will start with the shoutbox, after you have all of the codes up, we will break it up and show you how to customize it
Shoutbox:

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}
else if ($message == "") {
echo "Error: No message to be sent.";
}
else if ($mlen > $maxlength) {
echo "Error: Message too long.";
}
else {
$db = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_query("INSERT INTO shoutbox(name,message,date,ip) VALUES('$name','$message','$date','$ip')");
}
}
$db = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());
$query = "SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 20";
$result = mysql_query($query);
echo "
\n";
echo "
\n";
while($r = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$name = $r['name'];
$name = strip_tags($name);
$message = $r['message'];
$message = strip_tags($message);
echo "
>$name: $message
\n";
}
echo "
\n";
echo "
\n";
mysql_close($db);
?>

Nickname:

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Message:

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