dwh
Wed 29th May '02, 3:07pm
I'm not sure how feasible this is in terms of performance, but I think this can be done with an extra field in the post table:
Every time a user posts his post count increments. So on every post it says XYZ has N posts. Whether it's the first post or 100th post it'll say 100....which makes sense to me but confuses the hell out of my users...so is it possible to ALSO have a post number feature per user? IOW, the first time someone posts message, next to his name it'll say total posts: 1, Post number 1.
On his second post the first one will change to Total Posts:2, Post Number 1. I'm not the best explainer around and am feeling sick today, but I hope you can understand what I mean...
Another suggestion is to have a post viewable one at a time...with 2 different views...IOW, if this post is post number 10,000, then you can have a view like showthread.php?viewpostid=10000 and it will show ONLY this post...and another view where you can say showthread.php?userid=1000&showuserpost=1. The idea behind it is that let's say you have someone who has been posting for 5 years and you want to go back and see what his early posts were like, then you can easily go back to his post number 1 or 10 etc....not viewable for private forums of course....
Every time a user posts his post count increments. So on every post it says XYZ has N posts. Whether it's the first post or 100th post it'll say 100....which makes sense to me but confuses the hell out of my users...so is it possible to ALSO have a post number feature per user? IOW, the first time someone posts message, next to his name it'll say total posts: 1, Post number 1.
On his second post the first one will change to Total Posts:2, Post Number 1. I'm not the best explainer around and am feeling sick today, but I hope you can understand what I mean...
Another suggestion is to have a post viewable one at a time...with 2 different views...IOW, if this post is post number 10,000, then you can have a view like showthread.php?viewpostid=10000 and it will show ONLY this post...and another view where you can say showthread.php?userid=1000&showuserpost=1. The idea behind it is that let's say you have someone who has been posting for 5 years and you want to go back and see what his early posts were like, then you can easily go back to his post number 1 or 10 etc....not viewable for private forums of course....