[TWilliam]

Hi Shannymara,

The "bug" you're referring to is a result of posts being deleted from any particular thread showing this problem; apparently the database does not decrement the value in the field that keeps track of the number of posts when deletions occur. Tho' I don't know what the relevant field is named nor the table in which it resides, if this site is a typical LAMP-based forum (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php), then it's not that difficult to access the database using tools such as MySQL Administrator to manually correct the increment. Of course, you need admin access to the database to do so...

[admin]

Thanks Shannymara. I think all the links are fixed now.

[admin]

Happy Birthday --

I used both the fix you posted and this new fix here:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 8&t=135383

I'm going to unsticky -- since it should be solved for now.

[MD]

Happy birthday!

[joewp]

Since this still seems to be a problem, if any of the people with access to the board's php code want to try it, there's a hack to phpBB2 here that should be a quick and dirty fix to the problem. While it won't prevent the issue from happening in the first place, it will correct the errors in the database that cause the pagination to be wrong, resulting in the message "No posts exist for this topic". It also does other things to help keep the database in order and in sync and it's been around for several years and people on the phpBB forums recommend it. Here's a thread on the phpBB forums in which this issue is discussed and praise heaped on the above hack for fixing the issue.

I could help if necessary.