How can PHP developers efficiently link thread titles to their respective posts in a forum application?

When a user clicks on a thread title in a forum application, the PHP developer needs to efficiently link the title to its respective post. One way to achieve this is by passing the post ID or slug as a parameter in the URL and retrieving the post content based on that parameter. This can be done by using PHP to query the database for the post content associated with the passed ID or slug. 

// Assuming the URL structure is like: forum.php?post_id=123

// Retrieve the post ID from the URL parameter
$post_id = isset($_GET['post_id']) ? $_GET['post_id'] : '';

// Query the database to get the post content based on the post ID
// This is just a placeholder query, you should replace it with your actual database query
$query = "SELECT post_content FROM posts WHERE post_id = $post_id";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);

// Fetch the post content
if ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $post_content = $row['post_content'];
    
    // Display the post content
    echo $post_content;
} else {
    echo "Post not found";
}

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