Friend Networking Script... Help! Adding removing friends

[nightfox1405241487 0]

I'm creating my own friend network script which is going to be a combo of MySpace/Facebook and an AIM profile. One of the most important features is the adding of friends. The way to do this is probably simple & I'll kick myself when I see the code to do it. What needs to happen is a friend clicks a link which sends an internal message through the scripts messaging system (like a PM on a forum) to the other person to approve or deny the request. In that message, there needs to be a link to a page which executes a PHP script which updates the database adding both users to each other's friend list.I'm going to try and play with it a bit, but I doubt I'll be able to do it. BTW- I'm creating this to try and expand my PHP knowledge from beginner to moderate. All my PHP books are beginner based... looks like I should circulate my Amazon wish list to see if someone would be kind to buy me the PHP books I should be reading... :unsure:Thanks for ANY help. I'm currently going to finish up on the login system with access rights and try and get that working. Then I have to also get the message system working too. Then I can provide any database tables needed much more easily.[N]F

[Hercco 0]

Actually that sounds really simple to do:What you want to do is, when User A clicks on User B's name to add her to his friends, your system stores to a database (whatever you are using, text files are fine) record that A requests "friendship" from B. You'd probably want to use some unique IDs (like ID numbers or email addys or however you identify your users) . Then everytime a user logs in, the list for friendship requests is checked in case there are requests for this user. If there is, a dialogue to allow or deny is viewed. Implementing notifications of new requests should be quite straightforward to do, if you want to.