Discuss this article in our online forum

Hi Samuel

I'd like to put a single line/link at the bottom of ALL my content pages (it's just an include) and it would say this:

"Discuss this article in our online forum"

and the link would point to a forum page which displays only the discussion for that referring page. I have 7,500 pages on TopXML... I won't make small forums for each one! But I do want t have discussions for each page.

Can you do this?

Thanks,
Mark.

you can post a short version of the article (a paragraph or 2) in your forum and add the post URL to your article. This should be the easiest way to do it.

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Nice idea, but that won't work. Maybe for tiny website it could, but not for a site the size of mine!

• I have 7500 pages of content... I can't write up short versions of them
  
• I want individual discussions on each one in the forum
  
• So I need one URL to put in one include in the pages
  

Thanks,
Mark.

I'm doing something like this with a site I'm developing. When I add an article to my database, I have the option to turn on comments. I simply added some code that creates a new thread by submitting the appropriate data to ASPPlayground's spPost procedure. I take the thread ID that is returned, and insert it into the articles table. Then when the article is displayed, I use the same URL for comments, just a different thread ID.

A good example of this is at SitePoint http://www.sitepoint.com. They use VBulletin, but the concept is the same. They auto-create a thread for each article with a user called "ArticleBot".