[Milan Kaneria]

Does BP have custom loop to show the recent / random topics from the whole forum? Like it shows on the Forum front page under “Latest Discussions”.

I did found such loops for Blogs, Members and Groups (http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/) but not for Forums.

[Burt Adsit]

Howdy, yes there is. It’s just not documented in the codex. Works the same though.

See: /buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php

[Milan Kaneria]

@Burt

Thanks for the reference. Are you pointing to bp_has_topics() function?

That function needs a Forum ID and I want to instead pull latest 5 topics from the whole Forum. Is there any other function I am missing or would you suggest any workarounds?

[Burt Adsit]

Nothing like that built into bp that I’m aware of. Somebody else wanted to do this also. They tried using Sam’s bbPress Live widget. The problem is that bp uses the bbpress live widget underneath for communications with bbpress. Conflicts ensued. I don’t have any easy solutions for you.

[Milan Kaneria]

Oh i see, I wont be using that widget then.

Is there a way to get all forum IDs from BBPress so as to fetch posts from forums and sub-forums using bp_has_topics() function.

[Burt Adsit]

There sure is. Kinda.

$forums = bp_forums_get_forum();

if ($forums){

foreach ($forums as $f){

.. do something with each forum like..

$topics = bp_forums_get_topics($f['forum_id'], 5);

.. do something with each topic ..

}

}

bp_forums_get_forum() returns bbpress forum records. Same info as in the bb_forums table.

See:

/bbpress/xmlrpc.php

/buddypress/bp-forums.php

/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-live.php

/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php

The BP_Forums_Template_Forum template loop class iterates over one specific forum.

[Milan Kaneria]

@Burt

Thanks a lot for the function reference.

[Burt Adsit]

You betcha. Get your template up and running then?

[Kunal17]

I had asked about this earlier but I have still not found the solution. Please post if you have one. Thanks!

[Windhamdavid]

that someone was me – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2893 what I had noted is that sam’s plugins is essentially the same as bp-forums-bbpress-live.php and the only answer (at this point) is to manually construct the bp_forums_get_forum() as you’ve suggested. the problem I was incurring previously was avoiding having to use the forum ID as an argument – when set to null it returns the most recent topics. https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/375

[Milan Kaneria]

Yes I got my template running just fine.

Here is the code I use to show 5 recent topics across forum:

$topics = bp_forums_get_topics(0, 5);



if ($topics)

{

foreach ($topics as $topic)

{

print '

<div class="home-box-item">

<a class="home-box-item-link" href="' . $topic['topic_uri'] . '">' . $topic['topic_title'] . '</a>

by ' . $topic['topic_poster_display_name'] . '

Freshness: ' . $topic['topic_time_since'] . '

Posts: ' . $topic['topic_posts'] . '

</div>

';

}

}

else

{

print '<p>No topics found.</p>';

}

If you want to show topics from a specific forum then you can pass the forum ID parameter like this:

$topics = bp_forums_get_topics(5, 5);<br />

PS: Sorry for late reply.

[Kunal17]

Hi Milan,

Thanks for the code. Where would I paste this code to allow me to show the 5 topics on my default buddypress home theme (guessing I would have to create a widget?)

[Milan Kaneria]

Kunal,

You can put the code anywhere outside of widget if…else block.

[Milan Kaneria]

Kunal,

Add my code after the following line in home.php of BBP Home theme:

<div id="right-column">

It should get you started.

[Kunal17]

Great. Ill try that. Thanks for your help Milan.

[Kunal17]

The code works perfectly. However, I want to use it in a widget (so that it shows up in the middle of my widget filled right column bar not the top or bottom. Any thoughts on how to go about doing that?

[r-a-y]

Kunal17, you could potentially use the PHP Code Widget Plugin by Otto to paste that PHP snippet by Milan in there.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

[Kunal17]

Thanks ray. Ill try that out. Any idea if its compatible with WPMU?

I think displaying group topics in various forms should be part of the core BP widgets as it really helps pull the community into discussions. Ill check if in the trac already or else submit it.

[Kunal17]

The above code link to the posts in the bbpress forums. Is there a way to modify it to take you into the group view instead?

I want to restrict access to the forums directly and only want people to use it through the groups.

[slicktig1]

Hi,Milan suggested code is not working on latest buddypress install. it is giving following fatal error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_forums_get_topics()

Please suggest the alternative if any. thanks.

[Brian]

I’m getting the same error as slicktig1.

Anybody have an *updated* method of displaying a loop of latest forum topics from across all groups? Need to place this loop on my home page.