I agree what you said makes more sense. I am very familiar with ASP and ASP.NET but not so much with this perl/cgi integration I'm seeing in the ubb. This was the ghetto easy way I dreamed up haha.
I would just call the file open command where that file equaled the user number, then parse through that file for the post count? Is the post count stored in a variable location elsewhere that I could call?
I'm very new to modding a bulletin board of this size.
Any insight you have is helpful.
Thank you for replying.