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jdmc
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 Posted - 31 December 2005 : 13:03:54
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Suppose I'm writing something to be displayed somewhere on the Web, and I want to make reference to a particular post on a Web-forum that's running the Snitz software. And suppose further that I have the serial number (REPLY_ID) of that particular post, but I don't know the serial number (TOPIC_ID) of the topic thread it's in, nor which page of that topic it's on. Is there some way to structure a URL so that it will link directly to that individual post?
The only way I've found (so far) to do this requires all three of the REPLY_ID, TOPIC_ID, and "whichpage" -- for example:
http://www.foobar.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=997&whichpage=2#10023
...where "10023" is the REPLY_ID, or serial number, of the desired post.
If I omit the "whichpage" parameter, Snitz assumes a value of 1; if the desired post isn't on the first page of the topic, then the link fails to show the desired post.
If I omit the "TOPIC_ID" parameter, Snitz returns only an error message.
One thing that would be helpful is a way to tell Snitz to display the entire contents of a topic on a single page, regardless of its length -- such as "whichpage=all". Then at least you would know that the desired post was going to be displayed on the page, and therefore that the "#10023" anchor (in the example) would work.
But it would be much better if Snitz could correctly interpret a URL with only the post serial number as a parameter, like this:
http://www.foobar.com/forum/topic.asp?REPLY_ID=10023
...or...
http://www.foobar.com/forum/topic.asp?POST_ID=10023
Upon receiving such a URL, Snitz could first figure out which topic the post was posted in, and then what page of that topic the post appears on (unless the URL also contained a "whichpage=all" parameter)... and then display the results as if those parameters had been explicitly specified in the URL.
If there's already a way to do this, of which I'm not aware, please enlighten me.
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Edited by - jdmc on 31 December 2005 13:09:15 |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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jdmc
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Posted - 31 December 2005 : 13:33:12
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Originally posted by ruirib
There is no way to get to the reply without the topic_id.
It's very easy to do this with phpBB forums. For the example above, the URL to display whichever topic contains post #10023 looks like this:
http://www.foobar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=10023
And adding an anchor specifier on the end of the URL, like this...
http://www.foobar.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=10023#10023
...displays the topic and scrolls the page down to where the individual post appears.
Why can't Snitz do that?
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You can use pagenumber -1 if you don't know the page, though.
Well, I just tried that, and it didn't work. I got the following error message:
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ADODB.Recordset error '800a0bb9'
Arguments are of the wrong type, are out of acceptable range, or are in conflict with one another.
/forum/topic.asp, line 383
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Edited by - jdmc on 31 December 2005 13:39:27 |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
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laser
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Posted - 31 December 2005 : 15:24:16
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Why can't Snitz do that?
Because it's never been a requirement, but you could always code something that works that way 
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It's very easy to do this with phpBB forums.
Doea phpBB do Active Topics just like Snitz ? All forum software is a little bit different. |
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
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Posted - 02 January 2006 : 06:28:33
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What you could do is create a new page (or modify the now-redundant link.asp) to determine the TOPIC_ID and page number of a reply posted through the querystring and redirect to topic.asp accordingly. Post back if you need help with something like that and I'll throw something together for you tomorrow.
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Ranko
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Posted - 02 January 2006 : 08:15:56
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| Or you could add the reply id as an anchor to the top of each reply and use that |
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