How do forum scripts handle read/unread posts?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by sanchez, Jun 10, 2012.

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    Hello all,

    I've written a nice forum script for my website and I'm quite happy with it. The way I handled marking threads as read etc. was to save all that info in MYSQL. As the forum grows, I realize that it might not have been the best way. Marking all forums read takes quite a while for the script to execute. I was wondering, how do other forum scripts handle it? Do they use Cookies instead? Please advise.

    Thank you
     
    sanchez, Jun 10, 2012 IP
  2. NetStar

    NetStar Notable Member

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    They user a server side method...

    I'm quite sure there's a seperate Table with columns holding the threadid and a username.
     
    NetStar, Jun 10, 2012 IP
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    ketting00 Well-Known Member

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    For me, I update a thread that user click. If there is no click they remain not updated and counted.
     
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    Gotta check into this...
     
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