Thanks Tedd, You're such an angel. I've tried it your way and it works perfectly well. (maybe I'll send you a return ticket to Nigeria when I organize the PHP conference). Hey Dan, help me amplify my thanks to Tedd. Alugo Abdulazeez www.frangeovic.com > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:38:01 -0400 > To: defatigue@xxxxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: MYSQL TABLES (One To Many Relationship) > > At 5:04 PM +0100 3/22/09, abdulazeez alugo wrote: > >Hi guys, > > > > I need help on something I'm working on and its really eating me up > >so I'll appreciate any help I can get on it. > > > >I'm writing code for a site that posts a topic for discussion and > >accepts comments (Just like a parliament). > > > >There are different discussions for every day and the comments > >should be displayed along with the corresponding topics per day. > > Hi Alugo: > > I wrote a similar thing for my site, see here: http://sperling.com > > As you can see, on most pages people can add comment. > > Considering such, the most important part I found was designing the > tables for the database. I used two tables, which follow showing > fields: > > COMMENTS table > Fields > id <-- auto-increment id for comments > post_time <-- time of this post > poster_id <-- the id from the POSTERS table > page <-- the page the poster commented on > comment <-- the actual comment made by the poster > notify_me <-- an option for the poster to select IF they want to be > notified of additional posts > approved <-- option for me to use if I want the post to be displayed > > POSTERS table > Fields > id <-- auto-increment id for posters > time <-- time of first post (i.e., registration) > poster <-- name of poster > email <-- email of poster (after confirmation of email address) > ip <-- ip of poster (taken from post) > web_site <-- web site of poster (if given) > banned <-- option for me to use if I want to ban this poster > > So as you can see, this is one table for posters and each poster can > post many comments (i.e., a "one to many" relationship). > > Each time a post is made, the posting method checks the database for > poster approval. Either the poster is approved, banned, or yet to be > registered -- each path is followed accordingly. > > Note as each page is loaded the comments are pulled from the database > and shown, or not, depending upon if the poster is approved OR if I > have overridden the post. This allows me to ban the post, but not the > poster. But in most cases, if the poster post something that I don't > like, then the poster is also banned. > > HTH's > > tedd > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx
