How would I make a article creation system like in Lua learning

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how would I make a article creation system like in Lua learning

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I think they use dataStores, never got interested in it but it should be how it works. So save the topic as a table containing a title value, and the description value but also the author value.

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local articles = {
	[1] = {
		["Title"] = "",
		["Author"] = "",
		["Content"] = "",
		["CreationDate"] = ""
	},
	[2] = {
		["Title"] = "",
		["Author"] = "",
		["Content"] = "",
		["CreationDate"] = ""
	}
}

Yeah, a dictionary of articles could look like this, with each field corresponding to its relevant value for each stored article. [1] and [2] in this example would represent the article’s assigned ID, providing a way to differentiate between articles.

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How did he add images also tho?

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Pretty much just keep adding properties to the array and read/write to them using a script:

local articles = {
	[1] = {
		["Title"] = "",
		["Author"] = "",
		["Content"] = "",
		["CreationDate"] = "",
		["Image"] = "", 
		["etc."] = "etc."
	},
	[2] = {
		["Title"] = "",
		["Author"] = "",
		["Content"] = "",
		["CreationDate"] = "",
		["Image"] = "", 
		["etc."] = "etc."
	}
}
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but what about images at locations like you can do with the devforums

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local articles = {
	[1] = {
		["Title"] = "",
		["Author"] = "",
		["Content"] = "",
		["CreationDate"] = "",
		["Images"] = {
			[1] = {
				["posX"] = 100,
				["posY"] = 100,
				["sizX"] = 100,
				["sizY"] = 100,
				["id"] = "imageid"
	}
}
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How would I save a array to datastores