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Title: How to reference a particular post?
Post by: SirPeale on February 09, 2004, 10:49:45 am

Say I want to reference a particular post in a thread.  how can I set a URL to zoom right to that post?

Title: Re:How to reference a particular post?
Post by: GamingGreg on February 10, 2004, 02:48:00 pm

To go to a particular post within a thread, you have to add a #msg<messageid>  to the URL.  To determine the message id of the post, you can look at the "Reply with quote" URL and find the quote= parameter and use that value.  Maybe there's an easier way to determine the message id, but I don't know of one.

For example in this thread:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=11298 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=11298)

If I want to go directly to RandyT's first post (reply #5),  I look up the message in the "Reply with quote" URL

(http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=post;threadid=11298;quote=87461;title=Post%2Breply;start=0;sesc=a971cc5aba95e69e604cbbbdce1d223e),

and I see the part that says quote=87461.  Then I tack on #msg87461 to the URL for the thread, and I get

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=11298#msg87461 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=11298#msg87461),

which takes me directly to his reply.

Title: Re:How to reference a particular post?
Post by: SirPeale on February 10, 2004, 03:20:21 pm

Ah!  I got everything but the #msg.  I was trying #<msgnumber>, not #msg<msgnumber>

Thanks a ton!