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[dcolos5]

I asked the same question somewhere else but all they told me was to read about relational databases, but that didnt' help..

My question is.. How do forum threads work? I'm pretty sure I know how the posts go, but what about the replies? How do you tie replies to an original post?

Also, what kind of code would you use to link to a thread from the forum index?

Thank you!

[elementaluk]

as in writing your own forum?

I'd go with 2 tables in a database and just link them together using an ID field e.g.

topics table:
|id|blah|blah|blah

Post table
|id|topic_id|post_num|blah|blah|blah

topic_id being the id from the topics table.
i'd use the post_num to arrange them/sort them because if you go by id it'll get confused and arrange them wrong.

sorry I dont have time or effort to write any code.