Messageboard: How do they do it?
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:46 am
I've created my own messageboard and now im worndering, how on this messageboard, when you leave the forum and come back the next day, it has all the new topics that you haven't read yet w/ a lil ARROW, and once you've read it, the arrow goes away, but only for the one you read.
I thought it would be w/ a lastvisit cookie, and it shows everything posted above that time, but that wouldnt work too well if you wanna make it work like this forum.
Im pretty sure this forum uses Sessions for this, but how are they used? are there session variables assigned for each topic above the time of last visit and then the session variable is destroyed after you view the topic??
I've never worked w/ sessions b4, but if thats how its done, i'll look into it.
If there's another way of doing this, let me know as well.
THanks
I thought it would be w/ a lastvisit cookie, and it shows everything posted above that time, but that wouldnt work too well if you wanna make it work like this forum.
Im pretty sure this forum uses Sessions for this, but how are they used? are there session variables assigned for each topic above the time of last visit and then the session variable is destroyed after you view the topic??
I've never worked w/ sessions b4, but if thats how its done, i'll look into it.
If there's another way of doing this, let me know as well.
THanks