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Basically, I've developed my own blog script for use on the site that I help maintain, and every time I write a post, the MySQL postid number increments, and that's how you access the post (blog.php?id=1, etc). The only problem with this is that I have to manually update the links to each individual post at the top of the page, which can be irritating.

Is there any way to have this be done automatically when I make a post? I presume it would be something like through a loop, but I'm not entirely sure how that would work. Any help would be much appreciated!

ETA: And another problem - when I have the front page of the blog (click) it shows the most recent blog entry. Unfortunately, when one uses the comments system there, it posts with the blog id number as "0" and so doesn't sort the comment to the specific blog post. Is there any way for somebody to comment on that frontpage blog entry and for it to go to its specific blog entry link?
 
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Why on earth are you having the ID for each blog post change? o_O The one with ID 1 should be remaining the one with ID 1; new ones should have increasing IDs. The other way is monstrously impractical in every possible sense; I cannot fathom why you would do it that way.
 
That's what happens already, if I understand what you mean:

The first blog post was blog.php?id=1
The second was blog.php?id=2

What I'm trying to say is that at the top of the blog section of the site, there are a series of links corresponding to each individual article, and when one clicks on them, it takes you to that specific article. At the moment, when I write a new article, that menu doesn't update to include the link to the new blog post - I have to do it manually.
 
Yeah, run a database query like SELECT id, title FROM blog ORDER BY timestamp DESC and have a loop generate the links from the results.

Also, for the other problem, fetch the blog ID from the database along with the actual entry and insert that as a hidden field into the comment form.
 
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