Anyone know how they do this?
 

Does anyone know how CamcorderInfo does their user reviews?

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...der-review.htm

They seem to be using vB for the login info, yet none of the posts in the reviews section are shown inside the actual forums.

Please help! :nervous:

My guess would be hidden forums and custom hacks :)

There a little hard to find, but the forums that they are getting the posts from are there.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62730

So what's the HTML that displays the hidden forums on the page? Is it javascript, etc?

And how do they dynamically generate a new thread for a new article?

bumo

It's not a new thread, it's simply a query being called to grab the contents of the post and display it in another location.

Have a look at the many vBulletin portal systems out there, they all have an announcement setup that looks like this.

I think they do generate a new thread, because how else would it only display topics relevent to the article?

Ah, I didn't notice the comments below.

It's not a new thread in the sense it has its own table reserved for articles in the MySQL db.

Like "thread" is for threads, more than likely there isn't a "article" table for articles.

Like Zachery suggested, they probably created a hidden forum (or many) where the reviews are stored.

Then they do a regular query to grab the thread, like I suggested in my above post, and that many portal systems do to grab announcements.

But then it continues with another query to grab all the posts from that thread--which would be all those posts shown at the bottom of the thread.

Sitepoint.com also does this for its articles, although it has an ArticleBot post a non-hidden thread in a forum relative to the topic, and then members can respond to it.

e.g. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/get...ed-with-pear/3

it could be ReviewPost. ReviewPost.com

Thanks Velocd for your detailed explination...

I see what you mean, but is there any simple way I could just have a reply box on my static pages that would create a new thread or reply to one if a topic is already started.

I would use the application titles, in my case, to help name each thread.

So basically I need a way to see if 'WinZip' has a thread already started. If vB finds 'WinZip' it will append the comment, if not, it will create a new thread called 'WinZip'.

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