I’m trying to improve on some breadcrumb code in the Edit Post section, and need to retrieve the forum ID from the post ID. Is this possible?

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You can do it with a custom query.

Something like

$forum_id=$bbdb->get_var("SELECT forum_id FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE post_id=$post_id LIMIT 1");

where $post_id is your post id.

This will generate an extra query per page but for just editing that would be fine.

[@serpentguard1701 Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

Sweet, works perfectly, thanks.

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

It’s extremely easy to get forum <-> topic <-> post relationships in bbPress.

Depending on where you are, you may just be able to do a

global $topic,$bb_post;

Then $topic or $bb_post will have the following objects inside:

$bb_post

post_id

forum_id

topic_id

poster_id

post_text

post_time

poster_ip

post_status

post_position

$topic

topic_id

topic_title

topic_slug

topic_poster

topic_poster_name

topic_last_poster

topic_last_poster_name

topic_start_time

topic_time

forum_id

topic_status

topic_open

topic_last_post_id

topic_sticky

topic_posts

tag_count

You use it like this:

global $topic; echo "$topic->topic_title";

or to answer your original question:

global $bb_post; echo "$bb_post->forum_id";

Of course doing it this way bypasses any filters that may be in place from plugins but that may not matter if you are just trying to do something simple.

[@serpentguard1701 Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

what variables can you retrieve from the global $forum variable?

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Please see my table reference here for “forum”

http://bbshowcase.org/reference/#bb_forums