kevinak Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I am attempting to make a bulletin board on my site where I can add information and display them almost like posts in the forum. When the page is opened, there will be a list of all the announcements. I would like unread announcements to be marked as such for each individual user. Maybe just highlighted a different color, whatever, not the point. My question is how would I go about knowing which announcements are read or unread for each user? Like say in my database, I have announcement one with a timestamp, how can I make that show as read and unread to different users, while still having other announcements? Yes, I do have phpbb3 installed on my site.. And you are probably like WHAT?, why would you want to do this if you can just have an announcement cat? Well, I'm crazy, stupid, and love to do my own things. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127569-unread-information-and-notification/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
php.ajax.coder Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I would have three tables in the database 1. Users - UserID, IP 2. Posts/Announcements PostID etc 3. viewed - UserID and PostID Add each new IP to the users table and then add an entry to the viewed table when the post is read. Then check for entry to see if viewed Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127569-unread-information-and-notification/#findComment-660073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinak Posted October 8, 2008 Author Share Posted October 8, 2008 What if there is a large number of members. So like over time 100 announcements x 2000 members = 200,000 rows in the table.. does that matter? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/127569-unread-information-and-notification/#findComment-660114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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