Marking unread comments, posts in regular weblog
Development and Programming
I’ve searched an’ searched, and I can’t find a definitive answer to this question.
I’m looking to display, to a logged-in user, the number of “unread comments,” and another instance, maybe, unread posts, marking them as “new”. This is using a regular ol’ weblog (aka channel now, I guess).
So I’m giving the users (no matter who they are) the total number of comments, and I was hoping to put a “(X new)” next to it for logged in people. Potentially same with posts though that’s not as urgent, comments are more important.
Though, if I could mark things from an incoming RSS feed I’m building as “unread” that would be super keen and impress all my readers…
Thanks in advance.
How would you determine if a comment has been read?
Oh, once you go to the single entry page for that post, actually.
So, I would have an index of multiple posts listed, with a comment_total, and total unread, then when you click on the entry and get to its single entry page with the comments for that post all iterated, I would want those considered “read” for that user.
Hmm, anyone know an answer to this one? Thanks in advance!
I don’t think there’s any trivial answer. You’d have to at the very least do some custom PHP and/or create an add-on of some kind to handle this. It probably would involve a new database table, or a VERY complicated cookie, to store the unread numbers.
I recommend trying to get the attention (via PM, probably) of one of the prolific EE add-on developers: someone like Victor Gutierrez or Silenz or Laisvunas.