This little project came to be when I couldn't find a shoutbox that was quite to my liking. I'm no expert with PHP, and the coding is far from elegant, but it seems to work well enough as a shoutbox/guestbook/chat script. I know it could be improved upon. After a couple of people asked if they could borrow the script, I kinda packaged it up as you see it now (mainly, I just moved some user variables to an include file for portability).

Features of All in one guestbook-shoutbox-chatroom:
- Functions as a guestbook/shoutbox, but also as a quasi-chat room by virtue of a silent refresh
- no annoyong IE 'tick'
- (it really isn't very efficient as a chat room, but I've used it that way on my webcam site)
- Displays the national flag of the visitor (courtesy of an IP lookup at www.hostip.info)
- Tooltip display of IP, date, time of post on mouse over a comment (to reduce clutter)
- Site owners comments receive a distinguishing highlight, and the site owners name cannot be used by others
- see comments.inc.php for explanation