Bulliten board problem

[swordsman35]

Hello I am in the middle of making a board but i am stuck in one area and wonder if any one can help me. I am trying to make it for when the person post there messages and click on the message and the link works great and every thing else works but here is my problem I cant make it for when you click on the link it shows the board the person title it of like you click on this link for this message it shows this board not the same one someone else post long time ago or all messages. How would I do it.
Would I make it make new tables each time for it or would I ahve to do somthing else because I am totaly lost and i cant think how i am going to script it. Please can someone help me here.

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[planetsim]

I understand the first part of your question... It might just be myself, but could you re-phrase your question... i just get lost in it all..

[swordsman35]

Ok here is what i want to figure out how to do. You know how you post a message on a board then it creates a link to it well i can do that, but i cant make it for when you click on the link it brings you to the page to view the messages for the topic. Do i create a new table every time to do it or is there a way to use the same id number that holds all messages. I am so confise my head hurts.

[vaska]

you should have separate tables for threads and comments to threads...then associate the two...like...

thread_id = comment_to_thead_id

(comment_to_thread_id is not the same as the primary key)

then you can display all the comments to just one particular thread...

http://www.yourwebsite.com/viewthread.php?thread_id=9

call up the thread

SELECT * from threads WHERE thread_id = '$thread_id'

and then call up your comments to the thread

SELECT * from thread_comments WHERE comment_to_thread_id = '$thread_id' ORDER by comment_id ASC

like that...hope this helps...vaska