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I want to know how to be able to post comments on a topic I've seen that alot now-a-days.I was wondering if anyone knew of a nice tutorial or article from where I could understand how to make one myself. Or if you're kind enough why not tell me here

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I have a variety of places where I make use of such things.

The most basic is on my site, here - http://in-dented.com , under the random quotation. It's there because I needed to know how to do it basically, and this was my trial run (as most things that become part of my site are...)

It uses a MySQL database to store the info, though I'm sure it could be done easily enough with text files as well.

If you're interested, I can post the code once I get home from work.

I'm assuming you are able to run PHP, because you didn't mention it but this kind of thing requires at least some form of backend porcessing.

The important thing to remember when doing anything that takes user input from a form is to validate it so that it can't fux with your server or your page when it's re-displayed.

If you're looking for tutorials, any PHP & MySQL tutorial should get you started. If you don't have MySQL then you can do it by writing to and reading from text files, but that can be painfull to code, and slow to read from the server. If you don't access to either PHP or MySQL (or any server side language) then this kind of stuff simply isn't possible.