The manual suggests that admin can make certain 'hidden' adjustments to forums....such as registered users forum, or private forum.

This appears to require knowledge of the forum's 'ID', so it can be stated in an array in the required file.

But where is the ID of a forum indicated? If I have six forums, how do I know their IDs? is the first forum I created ID 1? And the second ID 2? and so on? What happens if I change the order of the forums - does the ID change as well?

Where is the forum ID indicated?

Hugh

Anonymous
Where is the forum ID indicated?
Just go to the first page, where forums are listed, and mouse over on forum's title. In the status bar you'll see thing like that:

<!-- nourl -->https://www.minibb.com/forums/index.php?action=vtopic&forum=7<!-- /nourl -->

For a simple mod_rewritten URLs, it will be like

https://www.minibb.com/forums/7_0.html

After "forum=" there follows forum's ID.

For various mod_rewrite schemas, forum ID could be located at the other position, but in most cases, in any schema, it is the first appearing number before delimiter, and the topic ID is following after. For example, in the URL of this topic:

https://www.minibb.com/forums/faq-7/how-to-determine-forum-id-448.html

- forum ID is located in the emulated folder name which is 'faq', and it is 7; the topic ID is the second met number and it is 448.

is the first forum I created ID 1? And the second ID 2? and so on?
No, not obligately.

What happens if I change the order of the forums - does the ID change as well?
No.

Post Only Forum; Sorry dimwit here. Where do I find or what form to the forum IDs take to create post only forums. I have tried the forumnnames (the ones I assigned) - fail. I tried the forum order numbers (fail) hELP!!

John

FORUM ID is not the order number. Mouse over on forum title on the 1st page, you will see the URL ending with forum=SOMETHING; something is ID.

Other variations explained above.

Thanks guys - solved - and now I've sorted my posts the way I want them too. Excellent programme and excellent support.
John