Difference between forum and category?

[tomf]

How do you know if your forumid belongs to a forum or a category? I can't find any field in the table which tells the difference. Maybe the options field? But for me the entries look like random numbers :ermm:

[Reeve of shinra]

each "forumid" is uninque. A "forum" can act as as a forum or a catagory.

So...

Catagory (id: 1)
- Forum A (id: 2)
-- subforum A (id: 3)

etc.

An easy way to see what the ID is is to click on the link for that in your forum.

Using vb.org as an example:
vB3.5 Modifications The forum ID is 109.

vB3.5 Modification Questions The forum ID is 111.

[tomf]

thx but maybe my question wasn't clear.

In my script I'm creating threads. Now I can't create a thread in a category - only in forums. But in the script I only have the forumid, and with just the id I can't tell if it's a forum or if it's a category. The problem is the script generates the threads and they get lost because they belong to a category. So there has to be some value in the database which tells if a forumid is a category or a forum.

[akanevsky]

Yes, it is contained as a bit (cancontainthreads) within the "options" field of the forum information. However, the bit, in this case, is getting take care of and converted to a normal array value, so it is simply a $foruminfo['cancontainthreads'] (bool).

[tomf]

thanks very much!