Private Message System

[Gast]

For a web project I am working on, I need to have a messaging system, pretty much like any PM system on a forum. I dont want a forum however...

I can manage the sending and storing of messages in the database. How would I get te system to show new messages, such as in bold or highlighted, or with a small image when they havent read it? Would it be as simple as having a field in the database tat is set to 0 to start with (as in not read) and they view it, set it to 1 (as in read)? Would there need to be anything done with sessions?

TIA

Niall

[wisewood]

I created something the same just last week. This is pretty much what i did.

My table has a field which is updated with 1 whenever a message is read... then in the inbox i have something like this;

if($read<1) {$image="<img src=images/unread.jpg>"} else {$image="<img src=images/read.jpg>"}

For mine, unread is an illuminated lighbulb, and read is not illuminiated. I didnt do anything with sessions

[Gast]

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I created something the same just last week. This is pretty much what i did.

My table has a field which is updated with 1 whenever a message is read... then in the inbox i have something like this;

if($read<1) {$image="<img src=images/unread.jpg>"} else {$image="<img src=images/read.jpg>"}

For mine, unread is an illuminated lighbulb, and read is not illuminiated. I didnt do anything with sessions
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Cool, thanks. :)