Tourmeister
03-07-2003, 12:53 AM
Howdy,
Even though we now have a feature that lets you email a topic to a friend, there may be times when you want to link directly to the start of a topic or a specific post within a topic.
When you are viewing a topic, the link is displayed in your browsers address window. Using that link will get you to the top of a topic thread. Here is what that link might look like:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=48
Notice carefully the "t" after the question mark. That lets the viewtopic script know that you are looking for a Topic and not a post. The 48 is the topic number.
If you want to link to a particular post, you have to know the post number. You can get this by putting your mouse cursor over the QUOTE button and looking in the lower left corner of your browser. At the end of that address will be a number, for example:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/posting.php?mode=quote&p=161
But when you do your link, it needs to look like this:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=161#161
Here the "p" lets the script know to display a specific post. It is important that you remember to use the entire phrase "p=XXX#XXX" or this will not work.
If the post you're linking to is the newest one for a topic, you can just put the mouse curor over that topic's arrow/page icon on the far right next to the username of the last poster (it links to the topic's latest reply), and then the specific post's URL (including the post number) will appear in your browser's address field in the lower left corner of the screen.
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.
Adios,
Even though we now have a feature that lets you email a topic to a friend, there may be times when you want to link directly to the start of a topic or a specific post within a topic.
When you are viewing a topic, the link is displayed in your browsers address window. Using that link will get you to the top of a topic thread. Here is what that link might look like:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=48
Notice carefully the "t" after the question mark. That lets the viewtopic script know that you are looking for a Topic and not a post. The 48 is the topic number.
If you want to link to a particular post, you have to know the post number. You can get this by putting your mouse cursor over the QUOTE button and looking in the lower left corner of your browser. At the end of that address will be a number, for example:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/posting.php?mode=quote&p=161
But when you do your link, it needs to look like this:
http://www.sfriday.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=161#161
Here the "p" lets the script know to display a specific post. It is important that you remember to use the entire phrase "p=XXX#XXX" or this will not work.
If the post you're linking to is the newest one for a topic, you can just put the mouse curor over that topic's arrow/page icon on the far right next to the username of the last poster (it links to the topic's latest reply), and then the specific post's URL (including the post number) will appear in your browser's address field in the lower left corner of the screen.
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.
Adios,