arranging posts

[ultimatehandyman]

I'm currently working on a project where I will be adding lots of posts to My site, but I was wondering if there was a way to change the position of the posts?

I want the new posts to be in a specific order and so they will show up in the forum as-

document 1
document 2
document 3
etc.

The only problem is that I may not have all the documents at first and so I may post document 3 last and so because the posts are arranged by the date they were posted or replied to they will be in the incorrect order-

document 3
document 1
document 2
etc.

Once the posts have been posted in my forum the posts will be locked so that nobody can reply to them and move them out of order again.

Is there a way to arrange the posts without having to post them in the correct order?

Thanks in advance

chez

[dcz]

There is a phpBB2 mod, topic cement if I recall well, that allow you to sort the topics exactly as you want.

But I don't know how well it is done and if it would not break the later convert to phpBB3.
The other possibility would be to install a topic bump mod, so that you could bump the topic to obtain your order.

The alternative would be to edit post time directly in the db or to replay to all topics in the opposite order you target (to for example post a link to where the article can be discussed).

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[ultimatehandyman]

Thanks DCZ,

I'll take a look at what you have suggested.

Thanks

chez