What hook location are you using? Go find it in the code and see what variable is appropriate to use in there.
hmm honestly no clue, i have a post lets say www.example.com/forum/showthread.php?view=1 or something and it has the prefix "prefix" and the id of it is 2, on the forum home page if i change the prefix to something else say prefix id1 then i want it to change the display on the forum home page, I will be searching in the vbmanual for the right hook location or w/e you call it but any tips or advice would be much apperciated, sorry for seeming so useless, i am mainly a visual coder sticking to only themes, but this one has been getting me.
hmm honestly no clue, i have a post lets say www.example.com/forum/showthread.php?view=1 or something and it has the prefix "prefix" and the id of it is 2, on the forum home page if i change the prefix to something else say prefix id1 then i want it to change the display on the forum home page, I will be searching in the vbmanual for the right hook location or w/e you call it but any tips or advice would be much apperciated, sorry for seeming so useless, i am mainly a visual coder sticking to only themes, but this one has been getting me.
have you tried rebuilding the counters in maintenace @admincp. vb does ^^^^. Sometimes it takes a while for the preview on forumhome to update to the new prefix is all.
I want to hide threads from guests that have the prefix NWS: (not work safe) so something like Lynne posted would be the direction I'd start with but that's a different case.
Can you show us visually? i.e. a pic of the forum and a pic of forumhome how you'd like it. Maybe we can figure it out.