Thanks a million times sir. Your code almost worked but it gave me id's of non-existent topics. However, I did furher tweakings following your last imput: I made it 'SELECT' => 'u.user_id, u.username, u.user_colour, t.topic_title, t.forum_id, t.topic_last_post_id, t.topic_last_post_time, t.topic_id,...

with additional reference to my post @ <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rmcgirr83.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2473">http://www.rmcgirr83.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2473</a><!-- m --> please all i need is how to define topic_id in top5.php so that i can alter 'U_TOPIC' => format_url($r...

romblmfao!!!

seems not to be sufficient, still gives same output. i suspect this line: $view_topic_url = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", 'f=' . $row['forum_id'] . '&amp;p=' . $row['topic_last_post_id'] . '#p' . $row['topic_last_post_id']);

This is my top5 php file, note that i have tweaked it to work with seo, others may find the tweaks useful too <?php /** * * @package phpBB3 * @version $Id: * @copyright (c) 2010 Rich McGirr * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License * */ /** * @ignore */ if (!define...

I use the top5 mod, but wasnt so compartible with my seo mod (handyman's) but i did some tweaks in top5.p hp and was able to get it work and gives me klink as this format: mysite.comm/reps- p 17690.html#p17690 Thsi directs to the last post, but due to the power of my seo, search engines quickly arch...