Tags: | php | comments |

2007-04-12 00:00

A New Project: PHP Commenting

Today I dove into a new project, writing PHP code that will allow commenting on my blog entries, something this blog definitely needs in order to be "fully functional." The biggest problem I've ran into so far is that my host doesn't by default allow files with the .html extension to parse PHP code. All of my entries so far have the .html extension in their "permanlink", and I would like to keep it that way, rather than switch everything to a .php extension. I put a request in to my host to turn on PHP parsing for .html files on my account, but I have no idea what their response will be yet. If they say no, I will likely be able to find other options - but PHP seems to be the best and easiest way to go for this project. The commenting project might evolve into more than just a commenting function, especially if I start working with a database to store data - so far all of my entries have been static HTML pages, but I can easily see ways to fold all of it together into a database entry, and allow PHP to put it all together and display it as HTML. Before I get too ahead of myself though, I will sit patiently waiting for a response from my host, and work on the comments portion of the site - with any luck you'll see it soon on every entry (I know, probably more exciting for me than you).

- Kevin
Kevin (at) Upcsite (dot) Net

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