CrazeD Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 I am working on some custom forums and I'm a little stuck with this one. I can't really think of a logical way to handle how the forum dictates whether a post/reply is new to that user or not. I have tried to paw through different forum software to see how they handled the problem, but quickly grew impatient searching the dozens of files. I sort of found a couple ways, though. One was to just make all replies within a certain time frame new to everybody even if they have read it, I don't really like that option. Another is to use a database row to store viewed post ID's and then match against it and if it's not found, it must be new. The problem I see with this is that the row will quickly grow very large and I'm a little worried about performance issues once there are a lot of active users and a lot of posts. What would you guys suggest I do? Also, for the record (not sure if this is relevant information) my sessions are held in a database table. Thanks! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162345-help-with-forum-logic-new-posts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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