Wanting a limit for the amount of comments posted

[Shinmeiryu]

The core of my newsposting script comes with users being able to post comments (user reviews) for each article.

How would I go about placing a limit on how many comments can be posted for each article according to how many are displayed? Not necessarily according to ID because I given the script the ability to have comments deleted.

Basically, I only want #num as the maximum amount of comments to be allowed for posting then have a block placed on it.

[tha_mink]

Are you using mysql? If you are you can do this...

$limit = 10;  //only allow ten comments...
$q = "SELECT id FROM comments WHERE article_id='$article_id'";
$r = mysql_query($q) or die(mysql_error());
$numposts = mysql_num_rows($r);
if ($numposts > $limit) {
    //no more posts allowed
}else{
    //post away!
}