if anyone is good with javascript maybe you can help me.

Im not sure if/how this can be done with Javascript or not, but I have a page where a Javascript prompt pops up and asks for the visitors name (which then becomes a varible, so on the site it says "welcome visitorsname").
is there a way for me to save a list of the visitors names, so that there can be a list which says:

people who have visited this site:
visitorname1
visitorname2
ect...

but also, I need it so the list omits entries that are blank (if someone dosent enter their name).

any help that could step me in the right direction would be great.

try downloading a free guest book
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/

I already have a guestbook, but thats not what I'm looking for.

on my website, I have a contract for people to sign.

when they go to the page, a javascript prompt pops up asking for thier name.

Then the document loads, and the contract text, has their name throughout it's body.

What Im looking to do is create a list on the bottom of the page that says

"other people who have signed the contract:"

and then list the names of the people who have signed it, not create entries like in a guestbook.

javascript is a hairy business...yikes

Do you want the algorithm or the actual coding? I don't know the language, but I might be able to come up with some sort of algorithm. I f you know the language, you can adapt it.

Don't bother with java script.
have a cup of java coffee instead.

sage,

mind showing me the algorithum you come up with, I can work with the code.

I just need an idea of how to do things

Shit, I was just bluffing.

OK, give me a couple of days, I'll PM it to you.

See below

My son who is a computer programmer says:
Use JSP or ASP or whatever language you choose to read from and write to a database that stores the names of the guests who have signed the book. The database can be anything-for example, it can be a flat file, CSV, or RDBMS(such as Oracle, Mysql etc..
Hope this helps..

thanks for the input from your son Patre

I know very very little of server coding (ASP, PHP, Coldfusion, ect)

so I have alot of reeading and research to do. lol.