A JM Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I'm looking for a way to present records in a field of my database - kind of like a chat box where the comments are seperated by user but I want to use recordID's instead to seperate the comments. I'd like the user to be able to scroll through the list of a "comment" field of my DB. Does anyone have any ideas for creating such a thing, is there already something available for me to use? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. A JM, Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I think you're looking for something like PHPMyAdmin, but I could be misunderstanding you. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/#findComment-909416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A JM Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 yes, sorry I must not have been very clear. I don't want access to the DB only to display the record information in a list box on my form that the end user can read through. My concern is the amount of information to be displayed my be large and I don't know if a textarea will be appropriate for my needs. Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/#findComment-909429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilitegxa Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I'm not sure if I understand you, but I made a chat room type of thing with mine, and I used the longtext for my message area. Do you think that would work for you? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/#findComment-909433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A JM Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 That might be exactly what I'm looking for - I don't need the user to be able to add any information, I just want to display whats in the DB field in it. Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/#findComment-909439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilitegxa Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 If you need any help, here is a tutorial I used: http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Simple-Chatbox-in-PHP-MySQL/23971 I just changed and used longtext for the message. And you can always display the contents without adding the form for users to add messages, or you can add that later if you decide you want it. :-) Hope that help :-) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/172505-solved-looking-for-a-way-to-present-database-information/#findComment-909458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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