The following tutorial will allow you to display the Permalink of each message in your Forumotion forum, as in the following Versions :
phpBB3
punBB
Invision
Before making any changes, make sure that your forum meets the following conditions : - You must be the founder of the forum and have access to the templates, - Your forum version must be phpBB2.
Editing the viewtopic_body template
Go to Administration Panel > Display > Templates > General and open the template entitled viewtopic_body.
Locate this part of the template, which is displaying the message title and the date / time which it was posted :
Do not forget to save your changes, and publish the template by clicking the green plus "".
Explanation
The purpose of our modification is simple : To make a link of the message ID and location to which it refers. This is what's commonly referred to as an Anchor. In the template, {postrow.displayed.U_POST_ID} is the message ID ; so it is inserted into the link :
Code:
<a href="#{postrow.displayed.U_POST_ID}">…</a>
This allows us to know and use the exact URL of a specific message.