Hello all.
I’ve been editing the bbPress 2.6.5 plugin a bit, in order to fit my use.

As of now, I just wanna track down the topic_id and the author_id.
That’s pretty simple, given the set of functions available for the community.

So I managed to write this little code here:

	global $author_id;
	global $id_of_topic;

	$id_of_topic = bbp_get_topic_id();
    	$author_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id($id_of_topic);

The ID of the Topic is successfully retrieved, let’s say it’s “18446744073709551615”,
but once I pass that variable to bbp_get_topic_author_id(), the output of $author_id is 0.

Now that’s pretty weird considering that if I pass the number 18446744073709551615 directly into that function, everything goes fine, I retrieve the author_id successfully.

One thing I noticed tho, is that printing out $id_of_topic, once with %d and once with %u (just after I call bbp_get_topic_id() ), I get two different values.

– %d = 0
– %u = 18446744073709551615

Pretty weird.. How can I somehow pass the %u to bbp_get_topic_author_id()?

Thanks in advance! 🙂

[@slimshadys Participant 4 years, 7 months ago]

Nevermind, managed to get it working with this workaround:

	$author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', $topic_id );

Now I have the proper $author_id! 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed