Re: Comment Threading

Your best bet would be to look at how some of the other apps do it :) (taking licensing issues into account that is :) This might help as well.. not sure how efficient it is on a really long list, but it works for my little stuff... http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/php/heirarchial-sorting.php On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Beth Gore wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to work out how to do some simple comment threading using > PHP. I've overridden the blockquote tag in CSS so that it only indents > from the left. > > At the moment comments are simply displayed in reverse chronological > order as all the replies to a particular post. > > I just can't get my head around how to do the threading. > > I could add an extra column in the comments table, i.e, "repliedto" > which would contain the comment ID of the comment the user replied to, > but that would seem to require some sort of recursion to check whether > or not a comment has a reply, which I'd rather avoid if I can (mainly > because I don't think I'm good enough to pull it off) > > The other idea would be to have a threadID.. hmm... > > table thread: threadID, rootCommmentID, replyCommentID > > Then perhaps every time a user replies to a comment, it adds a row to > the database? > > How can I somehow take the data in the comments and/or thread table and > sort an array of comment data which I can then use to layout the page, > i.e, adding a different level of indent for each "thread"? > > ie: > > originalpost > -comment1/thread1(reply to post) > > --comment2/thread2(reply to comment1) > > ---comment3/thread3(reply to comment 2) > > ----comment3/thread4(reply to comment 3) > > --comment5/thread1(reply to comment1) > > ---comment3/thread5(reply to comment 2) > > --comment6/thread2(reply to comment1) > > -coment7/thread1(reply to post) > > Thanks for any help/examples. I really just can't get my head around it. > > Beth Gore > -- > http://bethanoia.dyndns.org > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >