Setting up a review forum for books

Lots of books

[wintercornuk]

I run an online bookshop and my cart doesn't have a review or rate feature like Oscommerce. I'm not planning on changing it yet, so what can I do to add reviews and ratings to the site. It runs on ASP btw.

I want customers to be able to see each book record and then click to write a review. I had the idead of using some forum software and trying to get it to write a new record with the ISBN as the thread id, but it's a little out of my reach, technically speaking.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Raymond]

I'd say it will be much easier to create one for your purpose. But if you want to do it with some existing forum software, you can pre-create messages using all the ISBN. Then using that ISBN, you can link from your product page to that message.

Of course, you will run into many problems when changing the message id to ISBN. Like, you will have to rewrite the function that generates the unique message key, you will have to restructure some of the relationships...etc.

[wintercornuk]

Thanks Raymond. I keep thinking that something is out there that will be able to do it. I'll keep looking.