yeah, ok , i tried a different approach and it seem to have worked

, which is great!.
Here is what i tried and it yielded a good result.
PHP Code:
href="forums/showpost.php?p='.$getpost['postid'].'&KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=400&width=600"
Thank you for your help!
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you can now see what i meant, if you go to the site
www.vbdesigners.com , click on Forum Discussion and then quickview .

i think thats neat lol.
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ah another quick one, whats the code to pull out the image if a topic has been updated , ( forum_new vs forum_old ?) in external file
Thanks a bunch