next/ previous forum topic links

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<?php
function phptemplate_forum_topic_navigation($node) {
  $output = '';
/*
  // get previous and next topic
  $sql = "SELECT n.nid, n.title, n.sticky, l.comment_count, l.last_comment_timestamp FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {node_comment_statistics} l ON n.nid = l.nid INNER JOIN {term_node} r ON n.nid = r.nid AND r.tid = %d WHERE n.status = 1 AND n.type = 'forum' ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, ". _forum_get_topic_order_sql(variable_get('forum_order', 1));
  $result = db_query(db_rewrite_sql($sql), $node->tid);

  $stop = 0;
  while ($topic = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    if ($stop == 1) {
      $next = new stdClass();
      $next->nid = $topic->nid;
      $next->title = $topic->title;
      break;
    }
    if ($topic->nid == $node->nid) {
      $stop = 1;
    }
    else {
      $prev = new stdClass();
      $prev->nid = $topic->nid;
      $prev->title = $topic->title;
    }
  }

  if ($prev || $next) {
    $output .= '<div class="forum-topic-navigation clear-block">';

    if ($prev) {
      $output .= l(t('‹ ') . $prev->title, 'node/'. $prev->nid, array('class' => 'topic-previous', 'title' => t('Go to previous forum topic')));
    }
    if ($prev && $next) {
      // Word break (a is an inline element)
      $output .= ' ';
    }
    if (!empty($next)) {
      $output .= l($next->title . t(' ›'), 'node/'. $next->nid, array('class' => 'topic-next', 'title' => t('Go to next forum topic')));
    }

    $output .= '</div>';
  }*/

  return $output;
}
?>

Copy this in your template.php
It does just print out nothing
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For the benefit of newbies... I was briefly confused by the above.
All you really need in your template.php are the portions at the beginning and end of the code above.
Also, if your template.php file is written w/a <?php at the beginning and a single ?> at the end, you don't need those tags.

In mine it looks like this...

function phptemplate_forum_topic_navigation($node) {
  $output = '';
  return $output;
}