Hi,

I have adapted MLF to a Facebook application and have a fairly good understanding of the source code, however I'm having trouble determining how the $id gets created for new topics (this is then inserted in the mlf2_entries table for that post). It usually matches the "tid" if it is a parent post... it is assigned somewhere in includes/posting.inc.php. I am considering auto generating a sticky topic each time a new category is created in the forum (my application generates "courses" for categorys), and I would like a topic auto created in each course. It seems like a simple sql insert into the entries table, but I need to determine how this id/tid is generated first... the rest of the fields inserted into this entry table seem fairly straight forward for me.

Thanks a ton for your work! This is a fantastic forum.

-patrick