Hi Bella,

I really wish I had more experience in PHP programming as I'm sure this can be corrected. One needs to know the internal workings of the application more though. I really think if you had the right person helping you it should be possible to restore the ID numbers back to their original values (would probably initially need to remove all sessions which would force everyone to remember their password or get it sent to them again) but surely it can be done.

Best of luck and I hope you get it fixed back to how it was.

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the system was not based around id numbers before - they were alphanumeric - and could be anything, as opposed to the numbers now used.

Yes but someone with intimate knowledge of the code could make it work how they wanted. Not sure anyone would take that on but I'm sure it can be done.

Just feeling empathetic for their plight is all.

Well, but our IDs were all numeric. If they can do a mapping table of the threads saying old thread = new thread, I should think they could do a mapping table of the forums saying old forum = new forum, whether the original was alphanumeric or numeric, it's just two columns in a table, where it says

if incoming_val = "xxxx" then new_id = YY