I am a nooobeeee and doing this for fun mainly.

I am trying to design a web page commenting system for my site.

The catch is that I want users to be able to leave a comment on
existing comments. Therfore creating a thread where each comment can
have it's own comments.

An example of this can be seen here:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...47211&from=rss

I am not sure how to design this. I am using php and mysql.
Any help/sugestions?

You should go to sf.net, download some of the BB applications that are
out there and study how they do it. If you have any specific database
questions, do come back to us.

davidshook wrote:

1. Thanks a lot for the reply.
2. I have used phpbb. The problem is that they all use templetting
systems and I am having problems going through their logics.

I have made my own commenting script (without classes or a robust
templeting system). But, I was unable to come up with the logic for
creating response to previous comments, and then creating new responses
to those resoponses (and so on...). What's even worse is that I only
found one or 2 sites that have this commenting style so I can't realy
find a script to study from.

The reason I posted here is because the thoughest part is how do I
organise the tables, or how do I use a single table for all the
comments and the responses... butr in retrospect, this may not be the
correct group for the question

I am sorry if I posted in the wrong user group.

eKo1 wrote: