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[lilycup]

I'm creating a small website and I would like people to be able to comment on entries I put on the site.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this and I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction of how I could do this.

If anyone could help me, that would be great! :)

[CurtWRC]

I have just done a similar thing to this using ASP.NET (http://Curt.rallystuff.net). I used two tables called 'Blog' and 'Comments'. On the blog table I had the entries I had made myself. The ID of these are called 'BlogID'. I then created a page to add a comment. When a user filled out the forum and submitted it, the record was saved in the 'Comments' database. One of the fields in this table is called 'BlogID'. When a comment is added a BlogID is automatically added by using the query string addcomment?blogID=1 for example. Then I simply used a datagrid and opened the database using a WHERE clause like:

WHERE blogid =" & Request.QueryString("blogid")

This would then only display the comments for that entry.

If you haven't done much with databases before I would recommend starting with something a bit more easier than this to start off with. Unless anyone else knows an easier way :)

[Pennimus]

You can always use flat files, that's what I did for a while. It's not ideal but if you don't fancy diving into databases it's workable.

Of course you still need some kind of server side script so if you don't already know a server side language you may just as well learn mysql as well and go straight for the database option, since that is what you will want to do eventually.

[lilycup]

Thanks, I think I've figured it out now :)