I’m using bbPress’s “favorite” feature as “like” feature in other social networks in my application. Is there a function which would allow me to count the number of users whom “favorited” a topic? I’m also interested in counting the number of subscribed users for a particular topic as well. I’ve looked into /bbpress/includes/topics/templates.php but did not find any and wondering if you’re aware of any.

Thanks.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

The favorited/subscribed data is stored in the user meta table specific to each user, I am not sure how to do this too or even if it is possible.

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

@Loc Pham,

You will need some coding for this, so probably a developer can help you. But to give you some starting points:
– As @Robkk says, this is stored in the metadata of a user
– You need to check for the metakey ‘{your WP prefix}_bbp_favorites’ of all the (active) users and analyse the comma-separated string of the meta_values
– Then you can count the times that your topic ID is found

Pascal.

[@phamdacloc Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Actually, there’s a function for this already and it’s called: bbp_get_topic_favoriters($postID).

Hope this helps others looking for something similar.

-Loc

[@casiepa Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

@phamdacloc
+1 for you ! I still learn everyday 🙂
Thanks,
Pascal.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

@phamdacloc

Glad you found the solution to your issue. Sorry i wasn’t much help, it is hard to know every single function in the plugin. I am digging in the code more and more though.

[@allysonsouza Participant 9 years, 1 month ago]

+1, thank you!

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