Simple comments system

Scripting to allow user reviews?

[gibbergibber]

Hi,

I run a website that deals with specific authors and I wanted to add a system to allow visitors to leave comments about each book they've written, like a sort of Amazon style mini-guestbook for each title.

The trouble is, there are over a thousand different books to leave comments about, so I can't really set up a normal perl guestbook for each one. Is there a more scalable solution (using PHP?) which would give me a bare bones commenting system? I've tried news management scripts but they've nearly always got far too many features for what I require, but I don't want to install a guestbook script a thousand times.

Anyone know any sources of this kind of script? I really don't need or want anything fancy, just small and scalable!

gibbergibber

[SmallTime]

There are a number of comments systems for weblogs that should work fine for you, from ones hosted off site, to php scripts. search "weblog comments script" or such on google. If you want them inline, (displayed on the page rather than a pop up window) you may want to go to a full php content management system, like PostNuke.

[txbakers]

With ASP this would be very easy. Just store all the comments in a database and show them according to the page.

I sent you a sticky mail with a URL to look at that would be similar to what you want to do. All the entries are in a database.

[gibbergibber]

Hi again,

Thanks for the help. I liked the look of a lot of weblog comments systems, but they're still a bit restrictive about customising the comments page. What I'd really like is something exactly like the games review pages at:

[alexkidd.com...]

Postnuke's kind of overkill, I think, but thank you for the suggestion :)

[transistor]

If you have a database and a scripting language available in your server, you should really make your own system.
It is easy to do and is fully customizable.