Hie

I am tryingto add functionalityto the wrox blog so that individual blog entries can be viewed seperatly and user can post comments.

How do i go about it.


Thanks

Tawanda

Hi Tawanda,

Here's what I would do:

1. Add an hyperlink to each blog entry in the list of blogs that points to ViewBlogDetails.aspx. Pass the ID of the blog entry in the query string.

2. On the (new) page ViewBlogDetails.aspx, get the ID from the querystring, call GetBlogEntry and pass it the ID. Then use the BlogEntry object to fill controls on the page, like labels for the Title and Body.

3. Adding comments would be similar; you already have the blog entry in the page, so it should be easy to add a new comment and pass it the ID of the blog entry, the user's name and comment.

Hope this helps,

Imar


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Hie

Thanks for the reply.

I was kind of wary about the idea of creating a new page and thot there could be a way of using a user control but the problem i had was on how to pass the blogEntryId from one user control to the other.

ie when user clicks the title in blogEntries.ascx, the blogEntryId is passed to blogEntryDetails.ascx which will display the details.

hope this makes sense

thanks

Did you check out the Modifications folder for the Wrox Blog application that comes with the book?

It shows you how to allow a visitor to add comments by clicking the Add Comment LinkButton. On the click of that button, the AddComment command is triggered. Right now, the code in dlBlogEntries_ItemCommand just shows the Comments panel, but it would be easy to show the blog data itself as well. And to allow a user to go to that detail page, you can wrap the <h3> or <h2> with the blog's title in a LinkButton as well.

Does that help?


Imar


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Thanks a lot,ive looked at the Modifications folder on companion CD.

The problem i am now having is to do with inserting comments into Access database.
I am getting a "Data type mismatch in criteria expression." Error
and not sure how to work around it.

Ive checked the data type of fields in table and the values being passed to be inserted and there shouldnt be a conflict.
The SQL stats are as follows:

INSERT INTO BlogFeedback ( PostersName, Body, BlogEntryId )
VALUES (, , );


Is there any way i can get around this error.

Thanks in advance

Tawanda

Since PostersName and Body are strings, you need to enclose them in quotes:

HtH,

Imar


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Thanks for the response but unfortunately i am still getting the error.
Ive put character data into ' ' quotes as you said.

Is there anaything else that could be causing the error i could look at.

Cheers

Maybe the BlogEntryId is empty?

Hard to tell without seeing the rest of your code...

Imar
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