MySQL query:
CREATE TABLE shoutbox (
id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
name text NOT NULL,
message longtext NOT NULL,
time text NOT NULL,
ip text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;
Code (remember to change config variables -> line 36):
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.shouttableborder {
border: 1px dashed #A8A8A8;
padding: 2px;
}
.namepostedbg {
background-color: #99AEAE;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma;
font-size: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: normal;
text-indent: 2pt;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;
}
.messagestyle {
font-family: Arial, Tahoma;
font-size: 10px;
color: #99AEAE;
background-color: #F5F5F5;
text-indent: 2pt;
}
SELECT, option, textarea, input { Â
font-family: Arial, Tahoma;
font-size: 10px; color: #000000;
background-color: #fefefe;
border: 1px #000000 solid;
}
-->
</style>
<table width="175" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="shouttableborder">
 <tr>
  <?
//--- BEGIN CONFIGURATION SECTION
$host      ="localhost";
$username    ="yourmysqlusername";
$userpass    ="yourmysqlpass";
$userdatabase  ="yourmysqldatabase";
//--- END CONFIGURATION SECTION
mysql_pconnect("$host","$username","$userpass");
mysql_select_db("$userdatabase");
if($submit)
{
$ipget = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1");
  while($r=mysql_fetch_array($ipget))
{
$lastip = $r["ip"];
}
$name = strip_tags($_POST['name'], '');
$message = strip_tags($_POST['message'], '');
if($name=="name")
{$name = "Guest";}
  $time=date("M d, y");
$ip =$REMOTE_ADDR;
if($ip==$lastip)
{}else{
$result=MYSQL_QUERY("INSERT INTO shoutbox (id,name,message,time,ip)"."VALUES ('NULL','$name', '$message','$time','$ip')");
}
}
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoutbox ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 6");
  while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {    Â
  $time=$r["time"];
  $id=$r["id"];
  $message=$r["message"];
  $name=$r["name"];
$ip=$r["ip"];
?>
  <td class="namepostedbg"><? echo $time ?> - <? echo $name ?></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td class="messagestyle"><p><? echo $message ?></p></td>
 </tr>
 <? } ?>
 <td class="namepostedbg">Add Shout</td>
 </tr><tr><td class="messagestyle">
 <form action="<? echo $php_self ?>" method="post">
  <INPUT TYPE='TEXT' value='name' NAME='name' SIZE=15 maxlength='100'>
  <input type='TEXT' value='message' name='message' size=15 maxlength='100'></td></tr>
  <tr>
   <td class="messagestyle"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="shout">
 </form></td></tr>
</table>If you save the code above in a file named shoutbox.php to put it on your page, all you have to do is put the below code where you want it to be:
<? include('shoutbox.php'); ?>
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