Hi there,
I am currently doing a simple forum board but encountering a problem.
The ‘Last replied time and date’ in my forum index page is not updated to the last replied message time and date inside that particular topic.
Here’s the code for the post reply
<?php
include "connect.php"; //connection string
print "<link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css' type='text/css'>";
print "<table class='maintables'>";
print "<tr class='headline'><td>Reply</td></tr>";
print "<tr class='maintables'><td>";
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$name=$_POST['name'];
$yourpost=$_POST['yourpost'];
$subject=(isset($_POST['subject']))?$_POST['subject']:null;;
$id=$_POST['id'];
if(strlen($name)<1)
{
print "You did not type in a name."; //no name entered
}
else if(strlen($yourpost)<1)
{
print "You did not type in a post."; //no post entered
}
else
{
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Brunei');
$thedate=date("U"); //get unix timestamp
$displaytime=date("F j, Y, h:i a");
//we now strip HTML injections
$subject=strip_tags($subject);
$name=strip_tags($name);
$yourpost=strip_tags($yourpost);
$insertpost="INSERT INTO elec_forum(author,title,post,showtime,realtime,lastposter, parentid) values('$name','$subject','$yourpost','$displaytime','$thedate','$name','$id')";
mysql_query($insertpost) or die("Could not insert post"); //insert post
$updatepost="Update elec_forum set numreplies=numreplies+'1', lastposter='$name', lastrepliedto='$thedate' where postid='$id'";
mysql_query($updatepost) or die("Could not update post");
print "Message updated, go back to <A href='elec_message.php?id=$id'>Message</a>.";
}
}
else
{
$id=$_GET['id'];
print "<form action='elec_reply.php' method='post'>";
print "<input type='hidden' name='id' value='$id'>";
print "Your name:<br>";
print "<input type='text' name='name' size='20'><br>";
print "Your message:<br>";
print "<textarea name='yourpost' rows='5' cols='40'></textarea><br>";
print "<input type='submit' name='submit' value='submit'></form>";
}
print "</td></tr></table>";
?>
Code for index page:
<p ><h3 align="center">Department of Electronic Engineering</h3>
<?php
include "connect.php"; //mysql db connection here
print "<link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css' type='text/css'>";
print "<A href='elec_post.php'>New Topic</a><br>";
print "<table class='maintable'>";
print "<tr class='headline'><td width=50%>Discussion Topic</td><td width=20%>Author</td><td>Replies</td><td>Last replied time</td></tr>";
$getthreads="SELECT * from elec_forum where parentid='0' order by lastrepliedto DESC";
$getthreads2=mysql_query($getthreads) or die("Could not get threads");
while($getthreads3=mysql_fetch_array($getthreads2))
{
$getthreads3['title']=strip_tags($getthreads3['title']);
$getthreads3['author']=strip_tags($getthreads3['author']);
print "<tr class='mainrow'><td><a href='elec_message.php?id=$getthreads3[postid]'>$getthreads3[title]</a></td><td>$getthreads3[author]</td><td>$getthreads3[numreplies]</td><td>
$getthreads3[showtime]<br>Last post by <b>$getthreads3[lastposter]</b></td></tr>";
}
print "</table>";
?>
<a href="forum.php?"><img src="image/button_back1.gif" border="0" align="right"/></a>
The line of code in ‘post reply’ code
$updatepost="Update elec_forum set numreplies=numreplies+'1', lastposter='$name', lastrepliedto='$thedate' where postid='$id'";
give the correct 'last replied time and date.
Line of code in index page-line 28
$getthreads3[showtime]
give the time and date of the topic author. How to correct this so that I can know the last poster replied time and date in the index page?