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.

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".