2 newbie questions:

[MastahUK]

1. What scipt do I need so that the number of times a file has been downloaded can be remembered and shown next to the link?

2. (a little more complicated) How would I go about having a comments system on my site, so that you fill out a simple form with your name, email and the actual comment and it gets submitted into a new cell as a comment in the same .php file. I have seen this on many sites and have no idea how it is made.

Thanks in advance 🙂

[PHPdev]

Well I am not toally posative about the file download, but I am sure you can do something like a link to a PHP page, which has a counter (probably stored in a database), and then will send the file to the user. This is just a theory.

The comments section, I can probably help a little more with. All you need to do is setup a Database to store and retreive the Comments from. Fill out the form, Add a comment. Load the page, retreive all comments for said page. Can be done with a 1 or 2 table database.

Hope this helps

PHPdev

[MastahUK]

Thanks for the info, but I really needed to know how to actually go about linking to the database with script for the comments thing. I really do know nothing about this, so a working script or a link to where I can get this working script would be very useful.

If this is not possible, could somebody tell me how to send the information to the database (called mastahuk_comments) from the simple html form, and also how to then retrieve this information from the database.

[demonicfoetus]

You sound like you haven't even looked at the php manual or done any tutorials. If you want to write PHP ur going to have to learn the basics first and then make your scripts. Trust me, using other ppl's scripts works in short term but if u want to customise or hav problems setting it up, u are pretty much screwed if u don't know any php.

Try some tutorials. And by the way, u don't need to use a database, u could use txt files for a small site.