Hi everyone, I am new (not to PHP) but to this site.
What I need help on and have been trying to figure out, is this:
I'm creating a forum, it works and is coming along nicely. But what I want to know how to do is to create a system that will check to see what threads the user has seen and which ones he/she hasn't. AND if there is a new post in the thread it will show an icon that says (basically) New Post/Thread(s) or if it hasn't been viewed an icon that just says No New Posts/Threads. And once you do view that new thread or post, the icon changes to the viewed icon. If you need an idea on what I mean by this, look at pretty much any popular forum script (my main one is PHPbb).
Example: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/
If there is a new post(s) or new thread(s) in a topic/category it shows a circle with like an orange piece of paper in it, if there are no new posts or threads then it just shows a circle with plain piece of paper in it.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. 😃
