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Both bbPress and WordPress have a very simple way of fetching data.

WordPress uses $wpdb

bbPress uses $bbdb

(the db part means database, very simple)

Then there’s the good old “get_results”. They both use that.

bbpress:

$results=$bbdb->get_results("mysql query goes here");

wordpress:

$results=$wpdb->get_results("mysql query goes here");

Many times you can use the same query in either bbpress or wordpress by just changing $bbdb to $wpdb or visa-versa.

Then you have to figure out what you are asking for.

Let’s use the really simple bbPress Topics table as an example. Unless you’ve customized your install, the Topics table is probably called bb_topics

Here are all the fields available inside of bb_topics.

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