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Creating Access Database and DSN
Create a Microsoft Access Database with the following structure
code Autonumber parentcode Number title Text description Text uname Text email Text
Code is a unique, autonumber field, which shall identify each thread in the discussion forum, parentcode is the field, which is linked to code field to specify the child thread of any thread, parentcode will be 0 for all the main threads.
Title, description, uname and email fields are used to save more information on each thread. This Structure gives us the flexibility to create a tree structure of thread and child thread for n levels.