How to Read Number of Posts in Thread From Database?

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Originally Posted by Xenon

you should require global.php in your script, then it will create all the major functions you may need

(look at any vbulletin code file, to see what should be on the file's beginning)

Ah. Thanks, that worked.

But then I got a fatal error saying that I can't pass a variable as a reference. I hacked at it and finally figured out that

$threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo(2);

Has to be:

 $threadWanted = 2;
$threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo($threadWanted);

So my final code I used to accomplish the comment code was the following:

// #######################################################################
// ####################### Begin My Page #################################
$comment_news = "Comment on this News";
$comment_article = "Comment on this Article";

//  Thread ID 
$threadWanted = 2;
//  URL to Thread Top
$thread_URL = 'http://www.weeklydavespeak.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2';

//  Pull array of thread info from database
$threadinfo = fetch_threadinfo($threadWanted); 

//  Output Text and Hyperlink
echo "<a href='$thread_URL'>";
echo "$comment_news";
echo "</a>";

echo " ($threadinfo[replycount]", ' Comments)';
echo "<br>";
// ####################### End My Page ###################################
// #######################################################################

You can view the working page here: http://www.weeklydavespeak.com/testi.../php2/test.php

Thanks to those of you who took the time to help me along. This is really my first php work, and first experience doing anything with vB. I'd welcome comments on the above code or other suggestions.

My next step is to convert my SSI/SHTML pages into php and add lines like this to my story pages i.e.: The news article attached to the above code

Oh, and overhall my forum's look and about a dozen other things.

rob