Template:Forum url

https://forum.flightgear.org

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Goal

This template is used to create URLs for subforums, topics or posts on the FlightGear forum.

Usage

{{forum url
| type     =
| f        =
| t        =
| p        =
| anchor   =
| hilit    =
| keywords =
}}

type: The forum interface type that can be one of:

view: The default value. This is used for URLs to posts, topics, and posts, via phpBB's viewforum.php or viewtopic.php.

member: For URLs of a user on the forum, via phpBB's memberlist.php. This value will cause the f, t, p, anchor, and hilit parameters to be ignored.

search: For URLs performing forum searches, via phpBB's search.php. This value will cause the p, anchor, and hilit parameters to be ignored.

f: Forum number (optional). Used with the type values of view and search.

t: Topic number (optional). Used with the type values of view and search.

p: Post number (optional). Used with the type value of view.

anchor: HTML anchor, used for jumping to posts (optional). Used with the type value of view.

hilit: Words on the forum posts to be highlighted (optional). Words should be separated by the plus character "+". Used with the type value of view.

u: User number (optional). Used with the type value of member.

keywords: The keywords to perform a forum search with (optional). Words should be separated by the plus character "+". Used with the type value of search.

Technical details

The protocol and domain name part of the URI is built using the {{project infrastructure}} template.

Examples

No arguments

{{forum url}}

https://forum.flightgear.org

View mode

A subforum (The FlightGear project)

{{forum url|f=42}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewforum.php?f=42

A topic (FlightGear Newsletter)

{{forum url|t=7794}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?t=7794

A post (Re: Marking topics as "solved")

{{forum url|p=111333}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=111333#p111333

Subforum, topic and post

Note The f and t parameters are redundant in this URL.

{{forum url|f=8|t=10805|p=111333}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10805&p=111333#p111333

Topic and post

Note The t parameter is redundant in this URL.

{{forum url|t=10805|p=111333}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?t=10805&p=111333#p111333

Anchoring

{{forum url|t=10805|anchor=p111333}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?t=10805#p111333

Highlighting

{{forum url|t=10805|hilit=board+index}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?t=10805&hilit=board+index

Highlight a post

{{forum url|p=111333|hilit=contains+a+problem}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=111333&hilit=contains+a+problem#p111333

Member mode

Member listing

{{forum url|type=member}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/memberlist.php

Specific member

{{forum url|type=member|u=2}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2

Search mode

Search page

{{forum url|type=search}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/search.php

Search everything

{{forum url|type=search|keywords=c172p+floats}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/search.php?keywords=c172p+floats

Search a subforum

{{forum url|type=search|f=4|keywords=c172p+floats}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/search.php?keywords=c172p+floats&fid%5B%5D=4

Search a topic

{{forum url|type=search|t=25157|keywords=c172p+floats}}

https://forum.flightgear.org/search.php?keywords=c172p+floats&t=25157

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