Well, it's not pretty, but the comment counter is now counting down through 3 layers (or 4 depending if you count the original layer.) This is not elegant programming, and probably if I knew mysql better there would be an easier way to do it. Still, I think it's working. I could add more layers, but not elegantly - so the more layers it looks the more loops it has to run through. This is O.K. here since only a few people are using the system, but I doubt my programming would scale up very well (I'm sure the slashdot engine is much tighter.) So this is better, but still what I want is for the system to tell me when people have responded to things I've posted. That's a little more involved. Going to dinner. Talk to you tomorrow.
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- jim 2-02-2000 1:39 am