Designating Forum Topics

[gr81matt]

I've been working on a forum for awhile, and one of the main things I see in
other apps, that eluded me so far is how to designate different statuses to
topics that are new (since last visit), recently viewed things like that. I
don't have a lot of experience with session variables, prehaps thats the key?

Anyway, if anyone has some ideas on whats the best and most effecient way to
accomplish this I'd appreciate it.

thanks.

[dempster]

If you have some sort of login system, you can store information in the user
record such as last date visited. Then when they return you can compare dates
to show topics that are new to this user.

You can do something similar with cookies - setting a last date visited on the
user's computer so you can do the same kind of comparison.

-Paul