ShoeLace1291 Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I'm making a forum software and I was wondering what the best method to make the new posts forum marker feature was. I just want to display an image next to the listed forum and if there haven't been any new posts since the user last visited the forum, it displays a certain image. If there has been new posts made since the user last visited the forum, it displays a different image. How would I use the database to do this? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/46366-new-posts-marker-for-forum-software/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric_Ryk Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Assuming $last_login is the user's last login: SELECT COUNT(*) AS new FROM topics WHERE created > $last_login AND forum = $id; Then on the basis of PHP's if rules (anything but 0 is true) you can just do an if($result) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/46366-new-posts-marker-for-forum-software/#findComment-225552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoeLace1291 Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 Will this work if last login is a varchar field in the database? To determine the last login, I just had a hidden input field with the value of the day's date and the server time with strings. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/46366-new-posts-marker-for-forum-software/#findComment-227213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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