Technical details

I originally thought about writing my own comment box but when I looked around there were plenty already available. paBox 1.6 from PHPArena looked like the most suitable one for me but it didn’t quite do enough. It runs using PHP and MySQL, both of which I know a little about. So I rewrote some major chunks of it and added the following features:

• Ability to host comments from multiple sites simultaneously and independently from a single installation
• Multiple threads (individual comment sequences) per site automatically created
• Dynamic link showing the number of comments so far in a thread
• Improved performance for database queries

You can see how OarIn is incorporated simply into a web site HTML on Get Your OarIn

What Next ?

• Improved Admin page with logout button and CSS reset
• More secure use of includes
• Use of sessions rather than cookies
• Automated superuser tool for adding new domains from a template
• Restrction by referring page to avoid stray links
• Option to have username and passwords
• Add a polling popup
• Lots of other things I can’t think of at the moment
• Anything you might suggest

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