Find topic by its ID

[#ESY]

Hello,

I went to invisionpower board from phpbb3, and the topic links are very different.

For example, this is phpbb3: http://www.sitename.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=21331

This is IPB: http://www.sitename.com/forum/index.php?/topic/21331-TOPIC_TITLE_HERE/

 

Can I find a certain topic by its id? I know the ID from phpbb3, but I can't just modify the link because I need the title too.

Thank you.  

[opentype]

What do you mean by “find” the topic? Through the search function? Access in the browser URL bar? Or from within a script? …?

Regarding the address bar, you can just access the topic through /00000-something
Which means: the ID followed by a hyphen and something else. Example to access this topic:

https://invisionpower.com/forums/topic/436181-doesn’t-matter
https://invisionpower.com/forums/topic/436181-x
https://invisionpower.com/forums/topic/436181-hello

All forwards to the same topic. 

[#ESY]

I didn't know that I could've written anything after that dash and it would still forward me to the topic I was looking for. Thank you very much.  

[PTiCA1]

Tested on IPB 4.4.10

.../index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id={ID}

https://communityurl.domain/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=137072

 

Edited May 28, 2020 by PTiCA1