It looks like you missed the party by keith... $thread['url'] = ereg_replace("[/?!.$%£()~*@]+", "", $thread['url']); (I believe thats on page 5 of the thread)

If you are using the quick style chooser as I am you will want to change the modrewrite flags [R] and [L] to [QSA,L] which will append the query strings as needed.

To help make this hack easier to understand I have combined my changes along with the changes from KeithMcL (http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26705&postcount=24) into one post. ...

The quickstyle chooser is run via javascript using the following code:


function switch_styleid(selectobj)
{
var styleid = selectobj.options[selectobj.selectedIndex].value;

if (styleid ==...

Since I can't seem to edit my post, I have a little update... if you use my code please change [L] to [R] in your htaccess file which redirect to a url instead of naming the page to that url. This...

I really liked the idea of the titles in the url so I played aroung with modrewite and came up with this:

RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)-(.*)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]

This tells...

My site has well over 300 forums and subforums so the idea of making an entry for each one is no good...

Wouldn't it be easier just to give the forums numeric ids and use modrewrite to redirect...