Posted by J.O. Aho on 07/23/06 12:26

J wrote:
> Hi. I have a new personal video blogging site up. I was wondering how I
> can enable people to leave comments, underneath each video. I have
> absolutely no clue on how to use PHP, but have read up on it a little.
> All I really need is for the person to type in their name and their
> comment. They would then click on the submit button and their comment
> would be displayed underneath the video, under the last person's
> comment. Does this also involve SQL Database?

You can store things on a flat text file too, so you don't have to use any
form of database. If you choose to use a file, I suggest you look at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

All you really would need to do is to open a file and append what the user
submitted in the form.


//Aho

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