Re: Create a Bulletin Board

> Just keep track of a parent message number. You should be able > to use that one field to trace any message back to a root message. > And with that information, you should be able to build a "thread". I concur on that. However, I am more fond of the UBB/vBulletin style of threads, personally. - Kath ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boget, Chris" <Chris.Boget@wild.net> To: "'Jimmy Bäckström'" <broder_b@chello.se>; "PHP General List" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:57 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Create a Bulletin Board > > Yo! > > I'm thinking of writing a bulletin board and I wonder about > > threads. I want the board to be built on threads but I don't > > know how to do it. I want it to look something like this: > > subject 1 > > | > > |__ reply1 to 'subject 1' > > | | > > | |__ reply1 to 'reply1 to subject 1' > > | | > > | |__ reply2 to 'reply1 to subject 1' > > | > > |__ reply2 to 'subject 1' > > This is important to me so I'm thankful for any help I can get! > > Just keep track of a parent message number. You should be able > to use that one field to trace any message back to a root message. > And with that information, you should be able to build a "thread". > > Chris >