Adding comments to the bottem of an articale

[nova4676]

Hi, I have been using PHP for about 2 years mostly using includes to streamline building websites, so I still consider myself a newbie when it comes to PHP. Here's my question. I would like to write an article on a website and have a link on the bottom foe people to reply to it adding their views and comments. I’ve seen this done on almost all PHP sites. But my searches don’t turn up any tutorials on how to implement it. Can some one please help me with this? Thanks

[ereptur]

create a footer function like this one:

function footer($article) {
?>
<a href="newcomment.php?article=<? print $articleid ?>">Click here to make a comment on this article</a>
?>

Then just call the footer function at the bottom of each article page.

[nova4676]

I'm sorry my PHP is very rusty. Could you fill in the blanks for me its been a very long time since I picked up a PHP book. I am missing how to capture all the comments and save them to a flat file, then append them. Could you explain the code structure of the PHP that would appear in the "newcomment.php" file?

Thanks

[ereptur]

depends on what you plan to use. If you use MySQL to store the data, you would just get the ID of the MySQl table key. If you are using flat files, just use something like:

if(!($file = fopen("/some/path/to/file","a"))) {
   print "can't open file";
} else {
   $usercomment = $_POST["usercomment"];
   fwrite($file, $usercomment);
}
fclose($file);

I think that's right.

[nova4676]

Thanks ereptur I got everything to work out great. 😃

Nova

[ereptur]

Glad I could be of assitance