I’m writing a plugin and looking for a way to read the bb_topicmeta table without resorting to cranking out SQL. I can find the bb_update_meta method but no matching bb_get_meta.

Is there an obvious other metadata retrieval method or is this one for trac?

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Unlike WP, topic meta is accessed throught the topic object.

update_topicmeta( 5, ‘my_meta’, ‘yay’ );

$topic = get_topic( 5 );

echo $topic->my_meta; // outputs: yay

[@nolageek Participant 18 years, 2 months ago]

Unlike WP, topic meta is accessed throught the topic object.

update_topicmeta( 5, 'my_meta', 'yay' );

$topic = get_topic( 5 );

echo $topic->my_meta; // outputs: yay

Um. What? I see this isn’t going to be a fun forum system to customise if you’re not a PHP programmer. I have NO IDEA what the above means. (I dont mean that as a slam, just a declaration that I’m in over my head at this point.)

[@ear1grey Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Thx Mike; perfick.

@nola: the short version is that if you already have the topic (which I do because I’m using this in the topic.php template), then instread of saying: echo bb_get_topicmeta($topic->ID, "mykey"); whichis what I was expecting, there is the somewhat easier echo $topic->my_key;

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

nolageek, That information will mostly be useful to plugin authors. You probably won’t need to know that in order to customize your site.

I hope not, anyway