Hello

I add a new field under the title field shown up when a member going on to post new thread, and I name it "type"(see the attached file) just to give idea about any posted topic..

I add new field in the thread table and name it "type", its Type is "varchar(250)" .

Now my question; what's the required modification in the "newthread.php" or any other files just to store the enter information to the field named "Type" in the thread table?

Regards

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You would need to edit 2 files, at multiple places.

You'll need to edit newthread.php to make it insert that data into the database, and you'd need to edit whichever file you'll want the text to show up in to query your field.

Where would you want this information to show up?

On the thread itself, near the title.

In addition, I want it to be able to edit any time if there was mistake in the entered information

Regards

so you would need to edit, newthread.php, functions_newpost.php, showthread.php and editpost.php

in newthread it would be as simple as converting the $_POST['varname'] to $newthread['varname']
eg.
$newthread['varname'] = $_POST['varname'];

in functions_newpost you would need to edit the query that inserts post data.

in showthread off the top of my head I think it grabs all data from post table so if you extra field was added there you wouldnt need to do anything you could show it with $post[varname] in postbit template but if not youd need a query to call for it before it could be displayed.

In editpost you would need to make sure the var is called for and then set so that in editpost it will show and can therefore be edited. You would need to edit that file in at least two places.

Best advice I could give is find a hack that does a job that maybe needs to do what you want in oerder to function and then strip out the bits you dont need. Or at least use it to point you in the right direction.
You could of course just read the files I suggested to see how vb does the topic title and follow that as an example.

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I pointed you to ExtremeTims hack called thread describtions. That should work

thanks aloot sir