Automatic creation of forums ( for articles comments )

Hi all !
first sorry for my english ( i m french ... ) i am webmaster of a website which provide tutorials and articles. And i would like to have a system of comments for each tutorials.

So i' d like to have a link : [ Review / Comments ] at the end of each of my tutorials which redirect the user to the thread corresponding to the tut's.

My tutorials are all dynamic ( i mean PHP/MySQL ) so i should found a way to have a "dynamic link" for review/comments and a dynamic way to create the thread for the tutorial when i add it.

Thx for ideas

Originally posted by fastforward
dubucm,

I am in the middle of re-doing my site that allows this. I have achieved everything so far by just making template changes. You can see a sneak preview at test.BritishExpats.com. Click on the 'Articles' menu on the top left menu and you can see a few examples in there. Drill down until you see the article come up and there is a rating option, printable, send to friend etc, just like a normal thread.

Like I said, this is all done with templates. The articles are stored as threads. The examples in there already don't allow comments, but the next category I'm working on will.

Nice system!

You've done a nice work ! ....

but my website as a separate architecture for forums and articles... i mean that i do not want to do all with VBulletin ....

If you have 2 min look at www.flashkit.com they have tutorials with a REVIEW/COMMENTS button which bring you to a thread in an "invisible" forum....

I think it s a really good system ! ... and i want to have that sort of system .... i mean : when i add a tut it automatically create a thread in an invisble forum ( in my "normal" forum list ) with a title of the tutorial and the message => the desc. of the tutorial.

So i want in fact to know how to generate a thread in a specific forum form an external form ( ext. form vbulletin ) and i need too to keep the link to this forum in order to add a review/comment button ....

can anyone understand what i mean ?

I thought you said you wanted to post a new thread to vB every time you posted an article, which is what the code above does, assuming everything's in the same database. If it's not, let me know and I'll work on it some more.

I sent you (dubucm) back a PM with how to do the invisible forum, but for everyone else following this thread: Just edit your forum, and set "Is active?" to "no". This will make it so (despite the name) it *is* active, however it is not visible from any page except a direct link to it (e.g. http://myforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=xx).

In fact, they are not on the same db ... but i ll just add a db_select before the query to create the forum.
I think i can manage...

I ll try all that this night... ( yes it s 10 pm in france but after we explode japan in soccer )

I ll let you know if i have trouble with this

Thank you SO much for taking some min's to help me ... the VBulletin community is really cool ....

Glad to be one of you

Keep up the good work !

( yes it s 10 pm in france but after we explode japan in soccer )
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Lol
pfffff.....easy for Zidane
We are champion of the world but not in 2008...

except
that very interessant thread!
Thx

Waoh ... i've just finish...

it's ok and it works really fine

... but it was a hard PHP Time

=> So now i want to make a systeme to automaticly send e mail to the article author when a message is poster in the thread relating to his article.

Can i make him a moderator of only the thread ? What should i do ?

PS : if someone is interested by the PHP Code i can share it...

I'm very interested on this php code, I use indexu and I would love to have VB integrated with it

No problem ... i'll prepare that for you with english comments and post it in a new thread.

Thanks a lot I appreciate it!

Originally posted by conan
Thanks a lot I appreciate it!

Arf your avatar is the same than Martin