Template:Forum url

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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
| f      =
| t      =
| p      =
| anchor =
| hilit  =
}}
f
Forum number to be passed to phpBB's viewtopic.php (optional).
t
Thread number to be passed to phpBB's viewtopic.php (optional).
p
Post number to be passed to phpBB's viewtopic.php (optional).
anchor
HTML anchor, used for jumping to posts (optional).
hilit
Words on the forum posts to be highlighted (optional). Words should be separated by the plus character "+".

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

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

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