WebBoard / Auction

[JulieS]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good tutorial for setting up WebBoards/MessageBoards (Auctions would also be nice, but i'll start with simplicity). I've searched everywhere, and can only find ones that are already done for me.

-I'm new to ASP, but know how to read and write to a database. The only thing I'm not sure of in WebBoards is how to make the 'thread'. Besides that, is programming a WebBoard drastically different than reading and writing?

Thanks,
Julie

 

[culshaja]

Threads are made through the use of a unique identifier in a database, If you are using Access then this would be an autonumber, if you are using SQL Server then this would be an identity or a GUID. You then just have an associated table that references this entry in the threads table that contains the posts.

James James Culshaw
jculshaw@active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.active-data-solutions.co.uk

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=193305

 

[swilliams]

The way I set mine up was to have a "Parent" field for each entry in the messageboard. When a new thread was entered, the Parent would be 0. When a reply was entered to this thread, the Parent would be the ID of the thread.
On each message I had a display number which started at 0 (for the beginning of the thread) and incremented by one for each reply.
I also had a Level field to tell me how far to indent the message title when displaying the list of replies to the thread.

Simon