OK, I will summarize everything, because someone asked me in
this particular post.
The link is entered into that white text box that is displayed when you are posting.
These can be links to web pages in general, or links to topics and particular posts here at EventGhost.
Of course, to show you how to do it, I will have to place them in code boxes so you can see what should be typed.
The general syntax of a link is:
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[url=XXX]YYY[/url]
for example: [url=http://www.google.com/]uncle Google[/url]
where
XXX is the thing you want to link to, and
YYY is the descriptive text you want to display for it
and the example looks like:
uncle Google
The rest of the examples relate to topics and posts on the EventGhost forum pages.
An easy way to get links to particular topics or particular posts in a topic, is to right-click on the subject line and copy the link.
The subject line for this post is
Re: linking to a particular post.
They can then be pasted to replace the
XXX part.
You should delete the
&sid=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ part up to the
#p or
&start characters, if those characters are present.
If a particular post is located on the
first page of the topic, then the syntax is:
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[url=XXX#pNNN]YYY[/url]
for example: Remote Controls [url=http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6119#p30686]Part I[/url]
where
NNN is the number that was assigned by phpBB to that particular post
and the example looks like: Remote Controls
Part I
If a particular post is located on a page that is
not the first page of the topic, then the syntax is:
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[url=XXX&start=PPP#pNNN]YYY[/url]
for example: Remote Controls [url=http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6119&start=15#p30713]0019[/url]
where
PPP depends on which page of the topic it is.
page 1 does not use &start
page 2 uses &start=15
page 3 uses &start=30
page 4 uses &start=45
page 5 uses &start=60
etc. where each topic page increases &start by 15
and the example looks like: Remote Controls
0019
That's how it's done.
Now I keep updating a list of useful EventGhost links in a text file, which I can refer to whenever I am posting something.