Is there a function that returns all the replies when the topicID is passed into a function?

Some example code is below for better understanding of the function I am asking about –

$args = array(
	'post_parent' => $NUM, // ID of the topic
	'order'       => 'ASC', // Order of the replies (ASC or DESC)
	);

$replies = bbp_get_replies_function( $args ); // function i would like
$response = array(
      	status' => 'success',
      	'message' => $replies,
    	);

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

yes

$replies = bbp_has_replies( $args );

in \bbpress\includes\replies\template.php

it has these default args (some set by code above this section)

$default = array(
		'post_type'              => $default_post_type,         // Only replies
		'post_parent'            => $default_post_parent,       // Of this topic
		'posts_per_page'         => bbp_get_replies_per_page(), // This many
		'paged'                  => bbp_get_paged(),            // On this page
		'orderby'                => 'date',                     // Sorted by date
		'order'                  => 'ASC',                      // Oldest to newest
		'hierarchical'           => $default_thread_replies,    // Hierarchical replies
		'ignore_sticky_posts'    => true,                       // Stickies not supported
		'update_post_term_cache' => false,                      // No terms to cache

but whatever you pass in $args will overwrite these

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Thank you!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

🙂

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Follow up from this question, is there a function which you pass the title of a topic “ABC” and it returns back the id of said topic i.e 123?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

titles can be duplicated – eg you can have 2 topics called say ‘help’

the title will be the same, but the permalinks will be

forums/topic/help/
and
forums/topic/help-2/

so there is no title to id function

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Okay I understand thank you.

So is there no way in returning the topicID when I just have the title?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

only if you have one topic with that title, and since you cannot control what users title their topics this cannot be guaranteed.

You could return an array of topic ID’s that match the title, but not sure how much that would help.

what are you trying to achieve?

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Yes, I it is guaranteed that the topic title is unique – I am the only one who creates the topics.

I am trying to link my site with an app, and I have implemented a search bar so when the user searches a topic, then all the replies to that topic will show.

I have everything working except returning the replies!

… The array of topic IDs sounds like it would work, how would i do that?

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

if title is unique then

get_page_by_title()

untested but something like :

function rew_find_topic_id ($title) {
	$topic = get_page_by_title($title, OBJECT, bbp_get_topic_post_type());
	if (!empty ($topic) {
		$topic_id = $topic->ID ;
		return $topic_id ;
	}
	else {
		return 'empty' ;
	}
}

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Hi Robin, thank you for the example code! I have tried it and it seems to return the same value regardless of the title, so I am unsure…

Here is the sample code that I have used the function within:

function return_content_replies() {
	
	$title = $_POST['title'];
	$topic_id = rew_find_topic_id($title);
	
	if ( $topic_id == 'empty' ) { 
	  	// create the topic here
	} else {
		$args = array(
			  'post_parent' => $topic_id, // ID of the topic
			  'order'       => 'ASC', // Order of the replies (ASC or DESC)
			);
			
			$replies_array = array();
		
			if ( bbp_has_replies( $args ) ) {
			  while ( bbp_replies() ) {
				bbp_the_reply();
				$replies_array[] = array(
				  'id' => bbp_get_reply_id(),
				  'content' => bbp_get_reply_content(),
				  'date' => bbp_get_reply_post_date(),
				);
			}
		}
			$response = array( 'status' => 'success', 'message' => $topic_id);
	}
	wp_send_json($response);
}

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

did you correct the error in this line

if (!empty ($topic) {

should be

if (!empty ($topic)) {

[@saciojote Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Yes I did I noticed that before I tried the code. I will play around and see if I can find the problem, if the get_page_by_title() works as I would like then it must be an error somewhere else.

Thank you for your help!

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

my code above corrected works, but yes do come back and let us know if you find the problem or need further help