How to create ........

Anon

hi all phpbuilders,
Can anyone give me information how to create a forum using threads.

Thank-you all.

Anon

Sorry, forgot to explain that I would use it with Mysql and Php.

Anon

See http://stonemountain.yi.org/README for a brief discussion of why linear discussions usually work better than threaded.

But in general, a technique for supporting tree structures would look like this:

Every object has a unique ID and a parentID.
A root object has a parentID=0. To make a child object, set the parentID to the ID of the parent.

Write a recursive function to retrieve/display objects and their children. In other words:

function findstuff($id)
{
// do SQL to find all where id=$id
// print out the result (or links, etc)
// then ...
// for each item in the result set
findstuff($parentID);
}

With a little bit of formatting, the result might look like this:

Foo

Re: Foo

You're an idiot (was Re: Foo)
Re: Foo

Bar

Re: Bar
Re: Bar

Re: Bar

Rebar is for concrete (was Re: Bar)
Re: Bar

Anon

Steve Yelvington wrote:

See http://stonemountain.yi.org/README for a brief discussion of why linear discussions usually work better than threaded.

But in general, a technique for supporting tree structures would look like this:

Every object has a unique ID and a parentID.
A root object has a parentID=0. To make a child object, set the parentID to the ID of the parent.

Write a recursive function to retrieve/display objects and their children. In other words:

function findstuff($id)
{
// do SQL to find all where id=$id
// print out the result (or links, etc)
// then ...
// for each item in the result set
findstuff($parentID);
}

With a little bit of formatting, the result might look like this:

Foo

Re: Foo

You're an idiot (was Re: Foo)
Re: Foo

Bar

Re: Bar
Re: Bar

Re: Bar

Rebar is for concrete (was Re: Bar)
Re: Bar

How do you format it so that it looks like above or like the way it is set in PHP Builder? Please help.
Thankyou.
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