New Hacker Help?

[Bill Thebert]

OK, I'm still plugging along here.

This must be really kindergarten stuff for most of y'all.

Now that I've got the new column in the 'thread' table,

and now that newthread.php is poking the right value into place whenever a new thread is created,

I'd like to start pulling that data back out & start using $thread[field9] as a variable in my threadbit template.

I've put that into the template in the proper place, but it's still coming up blank.

That's probably because forumdisplay.php (or some function called by forumdisplay.php) is not READING this value from the 'thread' table -- along with all of the rest of the factoids about each thread, right?

Where should I be looking to get this column READ from the database table along with all of the other stuff about each thread? I should be looking for some sort of SELECT statement -- followed by all the other particulars about each thread?

Bill