I'm writing a plugin and looking for a way to read the bb_topicmeta table without resorting to cranking out SQL. I can find the bb_update_meta method but no matching bb_get_meta.
Is there an obvious other metadata retrieval method or is this one for trac?
Unlike WP, topic meta is accessed throught the topic object.
update_topicmeta( 5, 'my_meta', 'yay' );
$topic = get_topic( 5 );
echo $topic->my_meta; // outputs: yay
Unlike WP, topic meta is accessed throught the topic object.
update_topicmeta( 5, 'my_meta', 'yay' );
$topic = get_topic( 5 );
echo $topic->my_meta; // outputs: yay
Um. What? I see this isn't going to be a fun forum system to customise if you're not a PHP programmer. I have NO IDEA what the above means. (I dont mean that as a slam, just a declaration that I'm in over my head at this point.)
Thx Mike; perfick.
@nola: the short version is that if you already have the topic (which I do because I'm using this in the topic.php template), then instread of saying: echo bb_get_topicmeta($topic->ID, "mykey"); whichis what I was expecting, there is the somewhat easier echo $topic->my_key;
nolageek, That information will mostly be useful to plugin authors. You probably won't need to know that in order to customize your site.
I hope not, anyway :)
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