Website comment section.

[pieplough]

Evening gents,

Im looking to add a comments section to multiple pages of a website. However after some intensive googling there seems to be a miriad of options leaving me a bit confused.

What I want for my site is comments on multiple pages, so for this im guessing I will need to use a database and each article to be a .php file with a script to insert/retrieve the information to/from database.

Just to put this in perspective ive never used a database and have fairly limited php experience (just a mailto script).

So im asking for advice or a good tutorial you may have used in the past. Or indeed if there is a better option I have overlooked.

Thanks

 

[Martins]

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments
You could do it with facebook quite easily. Though whether you'd want to depends on your opinion of facebook!

 

[pieplough]

Thanks for replying man, that is an option I was not aware of.

However I would prefer to a more manual method to get to grips with php and data bases.

Anyone else?

 

[Martins]

Are you doing it within the context of a CMS or framework? I.e. Drupal, codeigniter, etc... Or is the rest of the site HTML?
If it's all HTML, I would recommend just looking up a normal php/mysql tutorial and having at it.

Don't forget to use http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php for some anti-sql injection at least, if you do go down that route!

 

[pieplough]

My site is all HTML, after having my mind blown trying to do this myself I am currently getting this set up on my site.

http://www.gentlesource.com/comment-script/

Not sure if its any good, what do you think?

 

[Martins]

I may be reading that site wrong but... they want you to pay $30 for a comment script and $100 to install it? Christ almighty that's a rip...

 

[pieplough]

You can use it for free with a "powered by" link to their site under the form. Or pay £17 to remove it. Got it set up after a bit of messing about. Quite impressed with it