It seems to works fine. I have a couple of ideas of what might be going wrong.
1. You haven't added it to the display in topic.asp so it won't show in your display.
2. You are looking in the wrong place in the database, you'll find the entry in the FORUM_TOPICS table in the T_SHORT column
I used 'beyond compare' to compare the original and your files then transferred only your bits over. Here are the differences
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Left file: C:\Documents and Settings\jason\Desktop\sf2k_v34_05\post_info.asp Right file: ftp://..../post_info.asp
-+ 56 Dim txtAns()
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-+ 800 txtShort = ChkString(Request.Form("Short"), "SQLString")
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-+ 811 Response.End
812 end if
813 if txtShort = " " then
814 Go_Result "You must post an intoduction!", 0
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810 end if <> 816 end if
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-+ 831 strSql = strSql & ", T_SHORT"
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-+ 852 strSql = strSql & ", '" & txtShort & "'"
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Left file: C:\Documents and Settings\jason\Desktop\sf2k_v34_05\post.asp Right file: ftp://..../post.asp
<> 43 dim txtAns()
44 dim nCount
45
46 dim Short
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-+ 787 '###Futura Edit
788 'if strRqMethod = "Topic" and strRqCatID = "2" then
789 Response.Write "<tr bgColor=""" & strPopUpTableColor & """>" & _
790 "<td noWrap vAlign=""top"" align=""right""><font face=""" & strDefaultFontFace & """ size=""" & strDefaultFontSize & """><b>Cash:</b></font></td>" & _
791 "<td><textarea cols=""" & intCols & """ name=""Short"" rows=""1"" wrap=""VIRTUAL"">" & Trim(CleanCode(TxtMsg)) & "</textarea><br /></td>" & _
792 "</tr>"
793 'end if
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Nicely done. I was looking for some idea about how to do this myself but in the FORUM_REPLY area
Cheers,
Raavin ;)
PS
To confirm what I'm saying, enter some data then go back and edit. This will place the data you just entered in the post page ;) I've also changed some of the text and commented out the conditional display bits.