PHP MySQL How to create a comment section in your website

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Instead of asking  how to use PHP MySQL to let users affect webpages  I ll ask this  because I learn better from projects and examples   So how would I incorporate a VERY basic comment feature using PHP and MySQL

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Normalization is your best friend in comment/rank/vote system. Learn it. A lot of sites are now moving to PDO ... learn that as well.

there are no right , right-er, or wrong (well there is) ways of doing it, you need to know the basic concepts and take them from there. IF you don't feel like learning, then perhaps invest in a framework like cakephp or zend framework, or a ready made system like wordpress or joomla.

I'd also recommend the book wicked cool php scripts as it has a comment system example in it.

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I m working on this right now as well   You should also add a datetime of the comment   You ll need this later when you want to sort by most recent   Here are some of the db fields i m using   id  auto incremented  name email text datetime approved

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This is my way i do comments  I think its secure     lt h1 gt Comment s  lt  h1 gt   lt  php   i    addslashes   POST  a      ip   addslashes   POST  b      a    addslashes   POST  c      b    addslashes   POST  d     if isset  i   amp  isset  ip   amp  isset  a   amp  isset  b          r   mysql query  SELECT COUNT    FROM  db ban WHERE ip  ip      Check if banned      r   mysql fetch array  r       if   r 0     Phew  not banned               if mysql query  INSERT INTO  db com VALUES   a   b   ip   i                             gt               lt script type  text javascript  gt                  window location   index php id    lt  php echo  i    gt                lt  script gt               lt  php                   else echo  Error  in mysql query               else echo  Error  You are banned       x   mysql query  SELECT   FROM  db com WHERE i  i    while  r   mysql fetch object  x  echo   lt div class  c  gt    r- gt a   lt p gt    row- gt b   lt  p gt   lt  div gt       gt     lt h1 gt Leave a comment  pl0x  lt  h1 gt   lt form action   lt  php echo   SERVER  PHP SELF      gt   method  post  gt       lt input type  hidden  name  a  value   lt  php  echo   GET  id      gt     gt       lt input type  hidden  name  b  value   lt  php  echo   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR      gt     gt       lt input type  text  name  c  value  Name   gt  lt  br gt       lt textarea name  d  gt       lt  textarea gt       lt input type  submit    gt   lt  form gt    This does it all in one page  This is only the comments section  some configuration is needed

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Create a new table called comments  They should have a column containing the id of the post they are assigned to   Make a form which adds a new comment to that table   An example  not tested so may contain lil  syntax errors   I call a page with comments a post  Post php   lt  -- Post content here -- gt    lt  -- Then cmments below -- gt   lt h1 gt Comments lt  h1 gt   lt  php  result   mysql query  SELECT   FROM comments WHERE postid 0      0 should be the current post s id while  row   mysql fetch object  result       gt   lt div class  comment  gt  By   lt  php echo  row- gt author    Or similar in your table   gt   lt p gt   lt  php echo  row- gt body    gt   lt  p gt   lt  div gt   lt  php     gt   lt h1 gt Leave a comment  lt  h1 gt   lt form action  insertcomment php  method  post  gt   lt  -- Here the shit they must fill out -- gt   lt input type  hidden  name  postid  value   lt  php   your posts id   gt     gt   lt input type  submit    gt   lt  form gt    insertcomment php   lt  php   First check if everything is filled in if   some statements        Do a mysql real escape string   to all fields    Then insert comment mysql query  INSERT INTO comments VALUES   author  postid  body  etc       else   die  Fill out everything please  Mkay         gt    You must change the code a bit to make it work  I n not doing your homework  Only a part of it

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You can create a  comment  table  with an id as primary key  then you add a text field to capture the text inserted by the user and you need another field to link the comment table to the article table  foreign key   Plus you need a field to store the user that has entered a comment  this field can be the user s email  Then you capture via GET or POST the user s email and comment and you insert everything in the DB    INSERT INTO comment  comment  email  approved  VALUES    comment     email     approved      This is a first hint  Of course adding a comment feature it takes a little bit  Then you should think about a form to let the admin to approve the comments and how to publish the comments in the end  of articles

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It s a hard question to answer without more information   There are a number of things you should consider when looking at implementing commenting on an existing website   How will you address the issue of spam   It doesn t matter how remote your website is  spammers WILL find it and they ll filled it up in no time   You may want to look into something like reCAPTCHA  http   recaptcha net     The structure of the website may also influence how you implement your comments   Are the comments for the overall site  a particular product or page  or even another comment   You ll need to know the relationship between the content and the comment so you can properly define the relationship in the database   To put it another way  you know you want an email address  the comment  and whether it is approved or not  but now we need a way to identify what  if anything  the comment is linked to   If your site is already established and built on a PHP framework  CakePHP for instance  you ll need to address how to integrate your code properly with what is already in place   Lastly  there are a number of resources and tutorials on the web for PHP   If you do a quick google search for something along the lines of  PHP blog tutorial  I m sure you ll find hundreds and the majority will show you step by step how to implement comments

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