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This article will explain how to add a shoutbox to your website.  A shoutbox is like a chat system that visitors can leave messages for you and others to see.  Usually they can leave thank you notes, comments and any other ideas that they want to discuss.

Most of the shoutbox scripts are freeware which means they are free to use.  On my example I will consider using PHP Shoutbox 1.1

1. Search and download the PHP script called Shoutbox 1.1.It can also be found at this link:

http://phpform.net/shoutbox.php

2. Unzip the file.

3. Upload the entire folder to your hosting server via FTP.

4. Look through the Shoutbox folder and look for the sett.php file.

5. Right click on it and set the chmod permission to 666.

6. Chmod 644 the config.php file as well.

7. Open a web browser and open shout.php. You can do so using this format: http://yourwebsite.com/shout.php. Be sure to change yourwebsite.com to the actual URL of your site.

8. Follow the step by step installation progress.

9. Installation is complete.

10. Now put the following code to where you want shoutbox to appear on your html:

<iframe src=”shoutbox/code.php” width=200 height=300 border=1 solid></iframe>

When you open up your site, you should see the shout box there now.   A reminder: make sure your host PHP supported for this script to work.