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Have your say 'live'

  • Ed Ellis

Create a 'live forum', discussing the days news events, like the web equivalent of a radio phone in. Here's how you could do it: Have a page where the news is updated by RSS. Each story could then have a link to its own discussion page.

In which create a SQL database submission form (in Ruby or PHP
for example) this would mean you could delete any offensive messages. The submission form would use SAJAX to automatically post to, and update the discussion page, giving the appearance of a live discussion, and the postings will be saved.

  • 13 May 2005 12:43 PM

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  • On 14 May 2005 03:23 PM,
  • dan said:

I'd follow the comments like system used in blogs....

But I'd love the ability to subscribe to an rss feed of the comments about a given article. I've been thinking of writing a plugin for phpbb to or some blogging software just haven't got round to it yet.

Basically in a similar way in which we subscribe to the for example tech news of the BBC we'd subscribe to a particular story and evertime someone posts a comment then the stories RSS feed is updated.

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