How to Use Scripts in Mini Thing PHP Gopher Server?

To prevent potential security issues or hacking attempts
on your site through this Gopher wrapper, support for
local scripts is only enabled via links to HTML
documents within the gophermap. This prevents the use
of the gophermap wrapper through the "7 - search query"
gopher to harm files. Essentially, you can use regular
PHP scripts styled to resemble Gopher.

Here is an example of a fully functional guestbook that
looks exactly like a Gopher guestbook Gopher://

How to install the "guestbook example"?

Note: The script uses UTF-8 encoding and works only
from the ROOT "/" folder of the wrapper!

This guest book is completely stylized for text viewing
mode and completely copies a similar gopher protocol
script!

From the form.html file, the message is sent to the
add.php script, which adds the text to guestbook.txt.
Messages are viewed through the guestbook.txt file 
via link in gophermap file. Just like in Gopher!

1) Copy the files form.html, add.php and guestbook.txt
into the folder where your index.php of the Mini Thing
PHP Gopher Server is located.

2) Set permissions to 777 for guestbook.txt using your
FTP client.

3) In the gophermap file in the root folder with index.php
add the following lines at any convenient location:

i
iGuest Book Example:
i
hAdd message	form.html
i
0Read Guest Book	guestbook.txt
i

4) All security settings are inside of the add.php file!

5) Enjoy!

Roman 15 Dec 2025 gopher://shibboleths.org