Talk To Me! (
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You've seen how many Web sites (including this one) allow you to
post comments and opinions on the material they publish. If you've ever
wished you had this capability on your Web site, or are simply curious as
to how this is accomplished, read on.
I've always thought that the nice thing about sites like Slashdot [
http://www.slashdot.com], PHPBuilder [
http://www.phpbuilder.com] and Devshed [
http://www.devshed.com] is that they allow
users to comment on the articles and news items posted on the site. By adding
this much-needed element of interactivity (not to mention striking a blow for
free speech), content-rich portals build a sense of community among users, offer
an immediate and public forum for user feedback...and also provide a fair amount
of entertainment in the eccentric and unpredictable postings that sometimes
appear.
Over the next few pages, I'm going to take you through the
process of adding this kind of interactivity to your own Web site. I'm going to
base this loosely on a project we did recently for one of our customers, and so
this case study will make some assumptions as to the existing architecture of
the Web site in question. However, you should have little trouble adapting the
principles below to add the same kind of capabilities to your own
pages.
Let's get started!
This article copyright Melonfire 2001. All rights
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