[@jason_jm Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

This function helps provide the ‘Latest Forum Topics’ list of topics which is default; part of the parent theme on the forum index page.

For your help:

Here is the case breakout of the types

switch ( $type ) {

case 'active': default:

$this->groups = groups_get_active( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'alphabetical': default:

$this->groups = groups_get_alphabetically( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'random':

$this->groups = groups_get_random_groups( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'newest':

$this->groups = groups_get_newest( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'popular':

$this->groups = groups_get_popular( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'most-forum-topics':

$this->groups = groups_get_by_most_forum_topics( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'most-forum-posts':

$this->groups = groups_get_by_most_forum_posts( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

}

As you can see, if specifying ‘most-forum-topics’ it runs:

groups_get_by_most_forum_topics()

From there it does a straight up dynamic select to the database to get the forum data.