gwendes

many thanks, I'll dedicate the rest of the evening to this, drinking and chatting in equal amounts... Wish me luck! :)

Thanks Jocka, I think I need something that explains the script a little bit more. Or perphaps designed to setup the database using terminal or phpMyadmin specifically. To clarify, I am very new to all this and I would like to create something and learn at the same time, most sites seem to be trying to teach a-z of the language then the basics. I think that I'm learning where my strengths lie, I can deal with the hardware and os side, coding is not my forte!

I am not the sort of person to post to a forum for assistance! I can usually find all the information I need out there on teh 'net, however, this has me stuck. I have even reached for a bottle of Smirnoff (and some mixers) in an attempt to get to the bottom of what is a simple task. I am, in general, highly computer literate but at the beginning of an adventure into the world of php/sql. All I want to do is add a 'comments' script to my homepage so friends can respond to posts that I make, like LiveJournal. Searching 'comments+PHP+MySQL' throws up tutes for everything but a guide to adding comments to a website. I even found such a guide, at work, but cannot find it again after 7 hours online today! :( I have a linux webserver running Apache, MySQL and PHP already, just point me in the right direction and I won't ask any silly questions :)