Scripting to inform that the database has been updated.

[TonnyD]

I have a site the has a forum built from the ASP script from frontpage
that saves the info into a database. My dad will update the database a
couple times a day. He wants to make sure that all posts are edited
before they are actually posted on the forum. What i want to do is
have a section on the index page that says there are a certain number
of new posts every time my dad makes an update to the database. It
would have to be associated with the visitors IP address, so that it
would only appear to users who have not yet visited the forum page to
see the new updates. For example if there are 3 new posts, I would
want the index page to say something like there are 3 new posts. then
once the person visits that forum page, the message would be gone
until the next time the posts are updated. Is this something that is
possible? Here is the site www.the-amt.com

Thanks for your help.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Yes it's possible
- but not w/ the FP Discussion web (Forum)
You would need a ASP driven forum (with some custom ASP coding)
Take a look at http://forum.snitz.com/

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|I have a site the has a forum built from the ASP script from frontpage
| that saves the info into a database. My dad will update the database a
| couple times a day. He wants to make sure that all posts are edited
| before they are actually posted on the forum. What i want to do is
| have a section on the index page that says there are a certain number
| of new posts every time my dad makes an update to the database. It
| would have to be associated with the visitors IP address, so that it
| would only appear to users who have not yet visited the forum page to
| see the new updates. For example if there are 3 new posts, I would
| want the index page to say something like there are 3 new posts. then
| once the person visits that forum page, the message would be gone
| until the next time the posts are updated. Is this something that is
| possible? Here is the site www.the-amt.com
|
| Thanks for your help.

 

[TonnyD]

well i already have Vbulletin. Its pretty much the same thing as that
i guess., but for some reason the visitors like this format better. We
had this site up another one with the Vbulletin forum and more people
liked this setup so im trying to stick with it. I guess i would need a
script that would note that the results query has changed and would
have to indicate by how many items the query has changed from the last
time the user was on. Im probably looking at a cookie to.