[jordashtalon]

I’m looking through the documentation here:

http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/buddypress-template-tags/

And can’t figure out how to detect the user ID of a person who posts a forum topic, e.g. in the /groups/single/forum/topic.php

I need to detect the id in order to display some more information about the user (Cube Points, Ranking etc..)

Thanks for any help.

[Boone Gorges]

Try bp_get_the_topic_poster_id().

bp-forums-templatetags.php has all of those functions. If there isn’t a template tag for the data you need, make your own – you can use those as a pattern (getting the value out of an appropriate global).

[jordashtalon]

Great I got it working, although instead of that function I used

$topic_template->post->poster_id

That function gives the Original Poster ID for some reason