comment like facebook script - php

Question

I already have an script where it will allow a user whom is logged in to comment on other users. One field for the usercommenting "men_id" and another field for the user being commented on commented_men_id. Well I save it in a comment table and to pull it I make a while I make a select to get the comment of men_id while getting the comment I do another while loop inside the while loop to get the user name and id to return it in the comment. Now the next step is to let other user to comment on top of the comment that is already there. I was wondering if I have to make another table or just create another table to get the comments on another comments. I was also wondering in terms of the php script will I have to create another while loop inside the second while loop to pull the subcomments?
So far I have the next structure
$sql1 = "SELECT id, mem_id, commented_id, comment
FROM comments
WHERE commented_id = '$id'";
while($row=msql_fetch_array($sql)) {
$id_coment = $row['id'];
$mem_id = $row['mem_id'];
$comment = $row['comment'];
$sql_member_data = msql_query("SELECT id, member_name FROM users WHERE id ='$id_coment'");
while($row2=msql_fetchj_array($sql_member_data)) {
$user_id =$row2['id'];
$user_name =$row2['member_name'];
echo '<div>'.$user_name.'</div>';
echo '<div>'.$comment.'</div>';
}
}
I advise might not be the best code but it is posting the comment, Now how can I get a comment within the comment generated by this script.
Thank you guys.

Answer 1

If you truly want a something like Facebook's commenting system, you are going to have to do a lot more than that. I made my own little system and it's nicely styled with some really awesome jQuery effects.
Here's what you are going to need
Section to get all your comments (which you have -- check for syntax errors)
Form and script to post your comments
And you will probally need to use jQuery and AJAX for the commenting and some more jQuery to auto-refresh like facebook does.
That's my take on it. No one else hate on me for this, just trying to give some input on it.
<?php
// Connect to database here
// Search and start loop to get all comments
$sql_comments = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comments WHERE type='main'");
while($rows_comment=mysql_fetch_array($sql_comments)){
// Get comment information
$main_comment_id = "".$rows_comment['id']."";
$main_comment_mem_id = "".$rows_comment['mem_id']."";
$main_commented_id = "".$rows_comment['commented_id']."";
$main_comment = "".$rows_comment['comment']."";
// Get user information
$sql_member_data = msql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id ='$main_comment_mem_id'");
while($row2=msql_fetchj_array($sql_member_data)) {
$user_id = "".$row2['id']."";
$user_name = "".$row2['member_name']."";
}
// Display comment
echo "<b>$user_name</b><br>$main_comment";
// Search for any sub-comments
$sql_subcomments = "SELECT * FROM comments WHERE sub_commented_id='$main_comment_id' AND type='sub'";
while($row_subcomment=msql_fetchj_array($sql_subcomments)) {
// Get sub comment information
$subcomment_id = "".$row_subcomment['id']."";
$sucomment_mem_id = "".$row_subcomment['mem_id']."";
$subcomment_comment = "".$row_subcomment['comment']."";
// Get sub commenter information
$sql_member_data_sub = msql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id ='$subcomment_mem_id'");
while($row2_sub=msql_fetchj_array($sql_member_data_sub)) {
$user_id_sub = "".$row2_sub['id']."";
$user_name_sub = "".$row2_sub['member_name']."";
}
// Echo sub comment
echo "<div style='margin-left: 20px;'><b>$user_name_sub</b><br>$subcomment_comment</div>";
}
}
?>