PHP Forum design question

[AnotherWannabe]

When people build forums using PHP, is there a general “thread_page.php” that is populated with different information for different threads, or is each thread its own php file? This is a pretty important question that I need to figure out before I can move forward in my planning. If anyone has experience with planning something like this, let me know.

The same question applies to a “My Account” page. Is it a general page populated with different variables for the user, or is it a different page saved for EACH user.

I’m not looking for code or anything, but if anyone could give a brief overview of how people make user accounts work in PHP, that would be great.

Thanks!

[tomy]

Depends on what you want to do. Generally, for accounts you are exchanging secret info with forms, so I would use $_POST to modify one account page. Form are a different story, however. For that, I would either create a new one for each topics, which is hard, or keep info about each post and give each post a number, then use a query string to define this number and find the right post, like
http://p24.corrosive.co.uk/threadpage.php?threadid=(the number goes here)
you can then use the $_GET method to go find the right thread and go to it.

[tomy]

“Form are a different story, however.”
Forums are a different story, however.
“create a new one for each topics”
create a new page for each topic

Sorry I forgot to edit