I like this approach. Would I use petapoco to save the comments (and retrieve a list of them when displaying the articles)?

I'm think of a web service called from javascript to list the comments.

Re petapoco - do I need to install something to use this with Umbraco?

Nothing special for the poco, just something like this:

using Umbraco.Core.Persistence;
using Umbraco.Core.Persistence.DatabaseAnnotations;

namespace CodeShare.pocos
{
    [TableName("tbl_comments")]
    [PrimaryKey("id")]
    [ExplicitColumns]

    public class CommentRecord
    {
        [Column("id")]
        [PrimaryKeyColumn(AutoIncrement = true)]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Column("umbraco_node_id")]
        public string UmbracoNodeId { get; set; }

        [Column("reply_to_id")]
        public string ReplyToId { get; set; }

        [Column("comment")]
        public string Comment { get; set; }
    }
}

Makes sense, Paul.

However, I am having real trouble using PetaPoco from a class in App_code to be used in my web service

https://our.umbraco.org/forum/extending-umbraco-and-using-the-api/77593-using-petapoco-from-my-own-web-service

Any ideas?

I would do it server side first before trying to put it into a web service to be called from javascript

If you are doing it that way I would create a separate library, so you can have your models and controllers in it and reference it from inside the view. Then when you want to deploy any changes, you are just changing this dll, not the main one for running the site.

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