Related article links

[dkin]

What is the best way to have "related article" or "related product links" I was think input 5 full html links so the entire <a href=""></a> seperated by a / then explode it when the page loads, but I would like to know what the pros would do since I myself intend to be a pro one day as well :D.

Please advise.

Dylan

[dkin]

any ideas?

[lobo235]

The way that I would recommend is to create categories for your articles. Then you could easily create the "Related Articles" links by referring to some of the articles (top 5 for example) that share the same category as the current article. On one of my sites I store the amount of page views each article gets so when I create Related Articles links I can use the most popular articles (by page views) for the category.

[dkin]

that is a good idea, I will keep it in mind and may put it into use, any other Ideas?

[jatar_k]

I would do the same as lobo235

when you say related think relational in the db, they should have something in common, relate to the same topic. Therefore they should all share some similar attribute allowing you to pull them from the db based on attributes the present article has.

[dkin]

ok, I will work that out, thank you lobo and jatar