Developing CI Based Forum - WIP

[eluser]srpurdy[/eluser]
Yeah I'm going to re-write this lol.

2) not sure what your saying? if I copy paste what you have I get "The URI you submitted has disallowed characters." if I take out the ++ I get a 404 error. Whats the reason to do an extra query? It's going to get the information the same way eitherway. So I'm not sure why this would make any difference.

For example I have to query to find out the forum exists. So whats to stop someone from entering this text anyway. That query is still going to run. Or are you suggesting this based on extra load on the database since it's extracting more information on the second query?

I'm using XSS clean on all fields, and cleaning any html tags out on posts. So no worries there.