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Originally Posted by kpmedia

As an ASP code writer, that doesn't even make sense to me. How can the user-supplied variable name (John Smith), combined with the system-supplied variable data (My Cool Nifty Forum Name), be stored as a static piece of data in the phrase manager?

It isn't. Think of the phrase as a piece of text with placeholders. As this phrase is fetched, the placeholders are replaced with the actual data. You need to edit the phrase and remove the appropriate placeholders.

Follow the breadcrumbs inside that function. You see that the subject is derived from a phrase with a prefix of "emailsubject_". The ending is $emailsub_phrase, which is $email_phrase in this specific case. Lastly, what is $email_phrase?

Originally Posted by kpmedia

Am I expected to get on my knees and bow down to the awesome knowledge of long-time vB users, like a medieval peasant looking for a bread scrap as well-to-do citizens of the kingdom travel by my hovel? Do egos have to be stroked first?

Am I expected to get on my knees and hand everything on a silver platter to the un-knowledgeable first-time vBulletin administrators, like a servant serving their king?

Seriously.

Look, the point is that if we gave everything to you as you asked for it, you wouldn't be learning anything, would you? If we can guide someone to the goal, they would take away with them the knowledge that, yes, they can do it themselves. In fact, all of us come here on fully voluntary grounds. Yes, even the staff are volunteers (except Marco, he is a Jelsoft employee).