Created a comments form, unsure of something

mat21

Hi,

I created a comments for. with recaptcha, ip banning etc....

Basically i want to use the same form for entire site, i have different articles that i want people to be able to comment on. User basically clicks on "Comments Link" and a popup shows with comment form with comments underneath it etc.

I am unsure how i can use same form for different articles without commments form one article mixing with another.

at the moment in my msql DB i got:

post_id (auto increment)
name
subject
comment
date_time
ip_address

Now i am still learning PHP but i seem to not be able to find how i create such a thing that allows me to for example on end of my comment page comments.php?comment_id=1 etc

i know it to do with $_GET but it is all confusing me and not sure if this is correct way, i know how get works and sort of how to use it.

I can easily put the form in a function if needed and call it from an external file in my global.php.

I just dont want comments from one article being mixed with comments from another article. i want them seperate like if they had there own forms.

Any help, explanation on this would be so much appreciated as it is something i really want to tackle, it will save me valuable time and make my programming more sufficent.

i have at the moment added a column called comment_id as i think i need to do something like that as part of what i want to acheive but at the moment just leaving it like it is until i can am told how to do what i want.

Thanks
Mat

rincewind456

How are you going to get the posts only relating to the article you want?
I think you need two tables like


TABLE: articles
article_id (auto increment)
article_title
article_subject
article_date_time

TABLE:comments
post_id (auto increment)
article_id
post_comment
post_date_time
post_ip_address

You can then cross reference articles to comments so that when you select an article id you can return all the comments pertaining to it.

Then as you say you can use GET to pass the article number to your comment view page i.e.

page.php?article=158