Guck
- Guck
- Noun. A thick messy substance, such as sludge.
Guck is a ridiculously absurdly shamefully simple guestbook webapp developed to mimic the now-defunct guestbook services from Guestbook.de. It eventually evolved into a pet-project to test some ideas and implementations.
It doesn’t have any ambition to be useful to anyone and in fact has some pretty stupid design goals, but it’s still a “working” app, so why not make it available?
It’s written in PHP5, does some shady use of MySQL and was thought out as a chance to use XSLT as a templating engine, so it’s definitely neither the most elegant code you’ll ever see nor the most maintainable in the real worldtm. You’ve been warned.
Since the service it aims to mimic (for nostalgia’s sake) was an old CGI mess that couldn’t even be called Web 0.5alpha, I think it’s appropriate that it might at least bear some resemblance in terms of crappiness…
In case you still haven’t understood the subtle bold text parts: this code sucks! I don’t even know why it’s still here…
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If you’re brave enough, you can also clone the Git repository.