This is the administrative area of the Forum. You will notice links to the Forum Topics Administration and Forum Threads Administration on the left navigational menu. These are the pages which will allow you to edit and delete comments which you or your site visitors have posted.

First let me explain how the Forum works. Topics are the categories of different discussions you want your site visitors to participate in. Currently only admins (everyone is admin here :)) can define Topics. Once these are defined, either you or your site visitors can start Threads within any particular topic.

For example, if you created a Topic called "Recipes", a site visitor might come in and start a Thread within that topic called "Cheese Omelet". At least, that would be the Subject (or Title) of the Thread. Then, in the Thread description field, he would input the actual ingredients and instructions for making a Cheese Omelet.

Once there are Threads within a Topic, people can come to post Replies. Replies are comments posted in direct response to a Thread. So let's say that Cheese Omelet Thread called for 2 eggs, but someone tried the recipe and used 3 eggs and it came out better. That person would then post a Reply to the Thread and discuss how he made the recipe better.

An infinite number of Threads are allowed within any given Topic, and users may post an infinite number of Replies to each Thread. This is how a user community grows and interacts with each other on the web, thanks to Forums like this one. I also want to add that this Forum works like any of a multitude of other popular Forum software out there - this model is in no way unique to ours!

Administrative Tools
I hope these Administrative Tools are fairly easy to understand. There are basically three main lists or views. They are: a list of Topics, a list of Threads, and a list of Replies to a Thread. They all have similar functionality and navigational treatment.

On the left side of each of these pages is a context-sensitive list of links which will change depending on the page you're on. In the Topic list view, you'll see a link to "Add a New Topic" on the left-hand side. But if you click on a Topic to edit it, you'll see links to Delete the Topic, View all the Threads within a topic, or go back to view all Topics in the list.

In the list view for both the Topic and Threads, you'll see a column for Threads and Replies, respectively. The number in that column, if not zero, not only counts the number of replies, but it also links to the list of Threads or Replies for just that particular Topic or Thread.

From these Administrative Tools you can only add new Topics, you can't add Threads or Replies. That's because you can already easily do so from the client side. Keep in mind that only you (the admin) can add Topics, and your site visitors can only create Threads within a Topic. They may also create Replies in response to those Threads.

While this is by no means an exhaustive list of instructions for this application, I hope it helps. With future releases and more features added, I hope to expand on these instructions.

So be a revolutionary now ... ;)

Thank you,
Founder
Zhatak.com