PHP - Reply To A Thread/topic

I am creating a new forum software known as Iforum, it will  use php and a database. I just started this yesterday and I all ready have the registration/login system up and working as well as connected to the database.  I have selected the CKeditor for my forum (I was initially thinking of using the TinyMCE editor) I can't seem to figure out how when you click the "Post New Thread Button" How to send the information to the database and then carry the user back to the thread. (I am good with php, html, and CSS but I am not great with databases
Any suggestions?

I am having trouble adding sub-topics to my home made blog system running under PHP-Fusion CMS with PHPver7.4.16 with cgi/fcgi interface and MySQL5.7.34-log. Here are 2 images:

Here is the module that produces the output.

<?php
echo "<div class='col-sm-12'>\n";
echo "<table width='100%' border='0'><tr><td><span class='hdspan2'><b>".$locale['gb_810']."</b></span></td></tr></table>\n";
echo "<table align='center' width='80%' border='0'>\n";
$result = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".DB_GRIMS_BLOG_TOPICS." ORDER BY topic_order ASC");
if (dbrows($result)) {
$cnt = 0;
	while($data = dbarray($result)) {
		$id = $data['topic_id'];
		$title = $data['topic_title'];
		$sub = $data['topic_sub'];
			$result1 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".DB_GRIMS_BLOG_POST." WHERE topic_id='$id'");
			$num_rows = dbrows($result1);
		if ($sub == '1') {
echo "<tr><td width='15'></td><td><a class='lnk-side' href='".BASEDIR."grims_blog/topics_page.php?topic_id=".$id."'>$title</a><span style='font-size:11px;color:white;'>&nbsp;[$num_rows posts]</span></td></tr>\n";
		} else {
echo "<tr><td colspan='2'><a class='lnk-side' href='".BASEDIR."grims_blog/topics_page.php?topic_id=".$id."'>$title</a><span style='font-size:11px;color:white;'>&nbsp;[$num_rows posts]</span></td></tr>\n";
		}
	}
$cnt++;
}
echo "</table><p></div>\n";
?>

The topic_order field is a new field I added to get the desired output but it's not standard procedure and is in fact not really workable in a live setting because I would have to use php_myadmin to modify it everytime I added or deleted a topic or sub-topic.

So the bottom line is that I can't figure out anyway to code the script to always show the sub-topic right under the associated main topic and all in order. If I add a sub-topic to one of the upper main topics it shows up at the bottom; hence the addition of the topic_order field. So right now it's basically a mess and I can't figure out how to code everything to work correctly. I have searched the forums here as well as several other sites and cannot get any clues.

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Ok I found the culprit and it's easy!

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function  timeAgo2($timestamp, $granularity=3, $format='d:H:i:s'){
        $difference = $timestamp;
        if($difference < 0) return '0 seconds ago';
        elseif($difference < 864000){
                   $periods = array('week' => 604800,'day' => 86400,'hours' => 3600,'min' => 60,'seconds' => 1);
                $output = '';
                foreach($periods as $key => $value){
                        if($difference >= $value){
                                $time = round($difference / $value);
                                $difference %= $value;
                                $output .= ($output ? ' ' : '').$time.' ';
                                $output .= (($time > 1 && $key == 'day') ? $key.'s' : $key);
                                $granularity--;
                        }
                        if($granularity == 0) break;
                }
                return ($output ? $output : '0 seconds').'';
        }
        else return date($format, $timestamp);
}

Now I will use:

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timeAgo2(136622,5)
Which works and it will output:
2 days 14 hours 57 min 2 seconds


But, if I add another "1" to it like this:

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timeAgo2(1136622,5)

It shows:
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14:03:43:42
Which is not right, it needs to show, 14 Days, 3hours 43minutes and 42 seconds.... Thank you, I finally explained myself better here, hope you understand