The Display Script
The script used to display the topics has two modes. If it’s passed a topic ID through the topic parameter, it attempts to display that specific topic and its responses. If no parameters are passed to it, it displays a list of the topics available to read. The topic list is generated by listing all the files in the topic directory and extracting the title and author from those files. The topic IDs correspond to the names of the files in the topic directory.
If the topic parameter is supplied, the full text of the topic is displayed. Each of the responses is displayed on the same page as the original topic, and a form used to respond to the topic is also displayed. The full source code for the display.pl script appears in ...
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