finding/changing a forums 'forumid'

[Mike Sullivan]

Mouse over a link to the forum you wanna make you news forum (one that points to forumdisplay) -- you'll see a forumid=# part there. That's it.

[amo]

how can i determine the forumid of a specific forum? i thought that it would have been the order but obviously thats not it. i've searched for the string and also searched these forums but not luck. any info would be great! thanks!

amo

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let me be a bit more specific. i'm using phpportals and i need to determine my forum's 'forumid' in order to use it as our news forum. here is the line i'm talking about:

$newsforum=1;        // The forumid that will be your news forum

i know this is hack but i assume this variable is not hack specific. thanks!