[fredvee]

Hello, trying to get a plugin working hammering here and there… what is the right way to refer to the current topic? I’ve seen around declaring global $topic and then using it as $topic->topic_id but no go. Any help? I’m trying to inizialize a variable with the id of the topic poster.

[fel64]

What do you mean, no go?

This code should do it! At a wild guess, remember that globals have to be declared as globals again in each function.

global $topic;

$topic_poster_id = $topic->topic_poster;

It may also be helpful to know that the attributes or whatever they are (things after the ->) correspond to the columns of data in the table.

[fredvee]

Alright! Somehow I had to do like this to get to it:

global $topic_id;

$topic = get_topic($topic_id);

$topic_poster_id = $topic->topic_poster;