multiple guestbooks?

[princess]

Before I start wading through the morass of php/sql et al, (to which I am clueless) I want to find out if this is possible.

Can I put multiple guestbooks into a web site?
or multiple bulletin boards?

I made a site for a children's memorial. On the pages for memories, recollections, for individual children I'd like to put a guestbook or something that people can write to for that child, and then view the entries that have been sent. A high school set up a guestbook for a child that died and her friends still send "email" to her.......what they did on vacation or just that they still miss her. It means the world to her parents. It was both very moving and very cool.

I can get one guestbook on the site easily enough, I just don't know if I can set up subdirectories or something for more than one.

Thanks

[don5408]

"Can I put multiple guestbooks into a web site? or multiple bulletin boards?"

Absolutely (on both counts). You're limited in how many PHP/MySQL boards you can create by the number of MySQL databases available on your plan (ex: 10 for the Economy plan) however you can create as many simple CGI guestbooks as you need with no problem.

Probably the easiest solution to implement would be to create a single PHP message board (recommendation: phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)) with individual forum/topic areas for each of the children. If you place a direct link to the index page for that sub-forum to the child's 'page' you could achieve the same effect as creating multiple boards with a lot less work.

Best o' luck!