Hello everyone,

I hope I am posting under the correct Forum. I am new to PHP code, but I am affluent in regular HTML code. I run an obscure movie review website and would like to be able to have a comment section after each movie review where someone can leave their comment and it gets posted under the review on the same page. I’ve been reading up on PHP for around 4 hours today and can’t seem to find any useful information. Luckily I stumbled upon this forum. So could anyone assist me in doing this? I will give you complete credit for allowing me to have this type of format on the website.

Thank you in advance.

~ Chris

Hey, can you explain what you mean a bit more? From the title, I can only think that you can use the "isset" function.

PHP Code:

<?
if(isset($submit)) {
post the comment
} else {
echo("form");
?>

Thats about the only idea I can give you at the moment, see how it goes and get back to me if you need help mate!

An example of the type of comment form that other review websites have used can be found at the following links:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/review/822

or this:

http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/002261.html

Or even this comment form which is on a PHP tutorial site, but I still don't have a clue how to go about creating it:

http://www.tipsntutorials.com/tutorials/PHP/50

Thanks,

~ Chris

Well, for a start, for the form (if you dont know how), do

<form action="file" method="how">
Your name: <br><input name="name">
<br><br>
<input name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Thats just a straight forward, 1 field form. You can add more of course! I wouldn't know about how to do the rating thing as I haven't attempted one myself yet. Once you have made the form, all you need to do it post it into the database and pull it out and show it.

Remember:
if the form is submitted, add to database
also show the comments posted
if the form isnt submitted, show the form and also all the other things posted

Here is an example of what I have blindly been messing with which I uploaded to my server:

Example Review Page

What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again.

~ Chris

Nevermind. That Example page is terrible. I have no clue what I'm doing...

~ Chris

Sounds like you need to learn the basics of PHP before you attempt to do this.
But what you basically need to decide is how you are going to store the comments.
Into a text file or into a MySQL database for instance.

If you're going to be using MySQL, check this tutorial out
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/1


Form posting with PHP is dead easy.
your form will look something like this

PHP Code:

<form method="POST" action="store_comments.php">
<input type="text" name="comment">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form> 


and the php script will start off like this

store_comments.php

PHP Code:

<?
// This line grabs the posted info
$your_comment=$_POST['comment'];

// Next comes the MySQL bit

// connect to MySQL
mysql_connect($domain,$user,$password); 
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

// Write to MySQL
$query = "INSERT INTO yourtable VALUES ('','$comment')";
mysql_query($query) or die( "Unable to write to table");

mysql_close();

?>

This is all covered in the tutorial

oops one small mistake there

PHP Code:

$query = "INSERT INTO yourtable VALUES ('','$your_comment')";