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Originally posted by big man
hi
go to forum home and now click on announcements and queries now you have got all of the thread's and stuff look under the address bar
mmmm if you mean something like this
http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6785
where it has all the numbers + stuff?
Basically the forum uses Visual basic scripting in the form of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) which probably stores all the posts in a database format (because it uses less space to store data in a text format than a html format) what those numbers do are tell the display page where to draw its data from
i.e. this bit forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=3 tells it to draw from forumid3 which is Announcements and Queries
once in there is displays the listing of posts each post being given a key id number in the database so
showthread.php?s=&threadid=6785 means show thread with key id 6785 (this thread)
etc. etc. etc.
I hope that is what you were asking
but that is a rough description of how that works, but I don't know that much about php cause I mainly work with asp (active server pages) , if not it gave me something to do in work
