[Henry]

ok ill make it short and sweet

does anyone know where i can get a javascript shout box or is it just not possible

[Caimin]

You'll need a bit more than just Javascript because you need to store the messages somewhere. That means using something like PHP to save the messages in a file on the server, or in a database.

[Henry]

ive seen it done with a simple text file but that used both javascript and php and because i know absolutely no php and my computer doesnt support it im just desperate to use java script but in the future i will get a half deasent computer and use php so thanks for ur response and yeah can u use a text file?

[Caimin]

You only need use PHP to store and display the messages from a text file - there's no reason to use Javascript for this unless you want to.

The PHP functions you'll need to use are fopen() to open a file and fwrite() to write a file.

[Henry]

cool thanks

[MadDog]

ya man, your gonna have to use php or something to write to a text file or database.

plain old javascript wont cut it for something like this.

[Asim]

u'll have to use some server side programming language that can get the msgz from the client side and store them in a database.

JavaScript cannot do this.

[Asim]

and I'll prefer using php with mySQL