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Retrieving forum ID from post ID

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm trying to improve on some breadcrumb code in the Edit Post section, and need to retrieve the forum ID from the post ID. Is this possible?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    You can do it with a custom query.
    Something like
    $forum_id=$bbdb->get_var("SELECT forum_id FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE post_id=$post_id LIMIT 1");
    where $post_id is your post id.

    This will generate an extra query per page but for just editing that would be fine.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Sweet, works perfectly, thanks.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    It's extremely easy to get forum <-> topic <-> post relationships in bbPress.

    Depending on where you are, you may just be able to do a
    global $topic,$bb_post;

    Then $topic or $bb_post will have the following objects inside:

    $bb_post
    post_id
    forum_id
    topic_id
    poster_id
    post_text
    post_time
    poster_ip
    post_status
    post_position

    $topic
    topic_id
    topic_title
    topic_slug
    topic_poster
    topic_poster_name
    topic_last_poster
    topic_last_poster_name
    topic_start_time
    topic_time
    forum_id
    topic_status
    topic_open
    topic_last_post_id
    topic_sticky
    topic_posts
    tag_count

    You use it like this:
    global $topic; echo "$topic->topic_title";

    or to answer your original question:

    global $bb_post; echo "$bb_post->forum_id";

    Of course doing it this way bypasses any filters that may be in place from plugins but that may not matter if you are just trying to do something simple.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    what variables can you retrieve from the global $forum variable?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Please see my table reference here for "forum"
    http://bbshowcase.org/reference/#bb_forums

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