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Thinking about it further (and not having studied the source code yet), it seems like what I want to do would be relatively easy:

* create a database table for 'users' - either manually with phpMyadmin or using the code from the install file
* then there's a registration page, login page, admin page, userlist page, etc
* there's some code in each page detecting whether I'm logged in or not - session id?  cookies?
* that determines what links display: 'login', 'logout', 'register', etc.
* and it determines whether the user is allowed into certain directories or webpages

It sounds simple in concept.  We'll see how it goes in theory. 

My vote:
==>  Forget the Private Messages and Polls. 
They waste space on my server.  I like this forum because it's lean and mean, and I hope it stays that way.

Rickard, I just got news of the v1.2 release!  Very cool, very exciting.  I can't wait to install it and play with it.  Thanks so much.  I love that it's xhtml 1.0 strict - that's what I write with.  You're the man!

Found it: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=21767#21767

Louis:  There's already a Split-Topic Mod - http://www.punres.org/files.php?pid=22
Just read the directions and install it yourself; it's easy.

Regarding 'Merging Topics', simply use your web host's control panel to access the database.  Then, move posts one at a time to the new thread: go to the 'posts' table and edit the 'topic_id' for each post you want moved.

I worked with the extern.php file and got it to print the 15 recent posts with links.  But I'd still like to add the poster and forum_name(linked) to the output like this:

subject(linked) : poster : forum_name(linked)

So while fetching from the database, I need the poster, forum_id, then the forum_name from the other table, and whatever is needed to link to the forum.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here's the code I'm working with:
--------
It's currently set up to display a list of the 15 most recent posts, with links to the posts:
subject(linked)

I want to do:
subject(linked) : poster : forum_name(linked)

//
// active2 (show recently active topics as 'subject(linked) : poster : forum_name(linked)') (HTML)
// 
// 
if ($_GET['action'] == 'active2')
{
    $order_by = ($_GET['action'] == 'active2') ? 't.last_post' : 't.posted';
    $forum_sql = '';

    // Was a forum ID supplied?
    if (isset($_GET['fid']))
    {
        $fid = intval($_GET['fid']);
        if (!empty($fid))
            $forum_sql = 'f.id='.$fid.' AND ';
    }

    // Should we output this as RSS?
    // Code removed


    // Output regular HTML
//    else
//    {
        $show = intval($_GET['show']);
        if ($show < 1 || $show > 50)
            $show = 15;

        // Fetch $show topics
        $result = $db->query('SELECT t.id, t.subject FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics AS t INNER JOIN 
'.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON t.forum_id=f.id WHERE t.moved_to IS NULL AND 
'.$forum_sql.'f.admmod_only=0 ORDER BY '.$order_by.' DESC LIMIT '.$show) or 
error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

        while ($cur_topic = $db->fetch_assoc($result))
        {
            if ($pun_config['o_censoring'] == '1')
                $cur_topic['subject'] = censor_words($cur_topic['subject']);

            if (pun_strlen($cur_topic['subject']) > $max_subject_length)
                $subject_truncated = trim(substr($cur_topic['subject'], 0, ($max_subject_length-5))).' ...';
            else
                $subject_truncated = $cur_topic['subject'];

            echo '<b>·</b> <a href="'.$pun_config['o_base_url'].'/viewtopic.php?
id='.$cur_topic['id'].'&action=new" title="'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'">'.
pun_htmlspecialchars($subject_truncated).'</a><br>'."\n";
        }
//    }

    exit;
}

(I added some linebreaks to minimize the horizontal scrolling.)

The problem with Scoop is that it isn't a good format for carrying on conversations - it doesn't work well as a forum.  I don't think you'll be happy using Scoop as a forum.

That sounds perfect.  (I like it, anyway.)  Doesn't that do what you're asking for?

Something like Scoop might be what he's looking for.  I don't know.  (Hope you don't mind my linking to it.)

If you click on the Announcements category, you'll find 3 topics dedicated to version 1.2.  The answer to your question has probably already been answered over there.

I knew it. And ?
It's good that you knew.  But your post didn't indicate it, so other people reading your post would have no way of knowing.

When I said, "in case you didn't know," the 'you' is addressing anyone reading the post.  I'm telling them where they can go to read more about the script and learn how it works and how to use it.  It's a helpful pointer for people needing instructions.

I haven't ever wrote "this is my script".
By not writing, "this is someone else's script," the implication is that it's yours.  It's always a good idea - and a matter of courtesy - to give credit where credit is due.  The standard method for doing this with JavaScript is to name the author in a comment at the beginning of the script.

In 1.2, will there be a feature that allows you to move individual posts into another topic?  If not I guess there will be a mod that can be added.

I like the idea of turning it into a browser, by the way.  Heck, make it do word processing and image editing while you're at it.

That's fine, I understand and I'm not in any rush.  Thanks for the rough estimate.

I'm planning to set up a new forum that will get a lot of use, and I figured if 1.2 were expected to be finished really soon, then I might as well wait for it.

But since it will be a few more months then I'm probably better off starting now with 1.5 so I can get the word out that my new forum is in place.