HELP! Having trouble with the permissions system (I think)

[Michael Morris]

I'm setting up a thread based database for spells - basically each spell is one thread. Extra spell data is to be stored in a seperate table.

I'm having trouble writing the spell editor. I need to be able to reach it simply by going to newspell.php. The file can be identical to newthread.php (that's what I'm starting with), but I need to hard code the forum the file works with. Also, I need alter newthread.php so that if someone tries to use it to modify this forum's threads it will bump the user over to newspell.php

I tried this...

PHP Code:

if (empty($_REQUEST['do']))
{
    $_REQUEST['do'] = 'newthread';
    $_REQUEST['forumid'] = '7';
} 


Didn't work... So help, please?