Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged postid

How to get PostID or question url in coding a question list?

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 01:50:24 +0000

I'm trying to manipulate (in qa theme) the question content in the question list. And I need the question link or the question postid for the purpose.

The main code is based on the mouseover layer plugin. But I tried to get the postid/ question url but failed.

qa_q_path_html(($questionid,$title,$absolute=true)

always returns https://mydomain.com/0/the-correct-title-of-that-post

I realized that the postid is wrong, but the title is correct.

$title is defined as $title = isset($question['title']) ? $question['title'] : '';

So, how should I define $questionid ? Or the solution for this purpose.

Many thanks.

Improvement for loading Posts by POSTID after the slash (even for answers)

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:29:06 +0000

Just found out that if you add the postid of an answer after stackoverflow.com/questions/ID then stackoverflow redirects to the stackoverflow.com/questions/questionID

This is a fantastic feature that we could implement into the core!

(I could also write a plugin for that, but it's so awesome to deserve the core :) )

PS: At Stackoverflow it only works for Q and A, we could also include Comments ;-)

Any core function to get the postid / pageid?

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:53:14 +0000

Just wondering if I could not find it or it does not exist: A function to call to get the postid of the recent page calling.

Something like:

$postid = qa_get_active_pageid();

I have seen that pages use:

$postid = $this->content['q_view']['raw']['postid'];

for instance. But it would be handy to not always search throught $qa_content or $this->content etc. to find the postid ...

Regards
Kai

How to get only 5 links under post question, but 10 related links (in sidebar)

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:43:07 +0000

Hello everyone,

I am developping a new Q2A and I get some problems during theme optimisation.

My theme automatically add "Related question" under post. In "Viewing", I manage to make 10 Maximum related question, but couldn't choose where.

Then, how to get only 5 links under post question, but 10 related links (in sidebar widget) as the same time?

Plugin Dev: How to get correct link only using the postid of a question?

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:58:30 +0000

I am developing a page plugin currently.

I get the question ids ("postid") from a separate table.

Now I would like to create correct links by using only the postid (the question number).

Problem is, the default function:

function qa_q_path($questionid, $title, $absolute=false, $showtype=null, $showid=null)

is expecting a $title that I do not have. I only have the postid.

1. What is the current way to solve this? An extra DB-query?

2. Why is there no core function that retrieves the title automatically by just throwing in the postid?

Thanks,
Kai

Best way to get link to answer and comment from postid?

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:53:07 +0000

I had this problem couple of times and have not found a good solution yet:

I have the postid and can get the type (Q | A | C) from the database (is there a handy q2a-function for this as well?).

Now I need the direct link to question, answer or comment.

To do the question is easy: mysite.com/postid → done

But how to get the links to answer and comment only from postid?
I.e. I search for the function that accesses the database, gets parentid, and builds the correct link.

postid for the current question being viewed?

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:33:20 +0000

Is there an easy way to get the postid for the current question that is being viewed? I will be using it inside qa-theme-base.php.

I'm using the following URL structure:

/123/why-do-birds-sing (requires htaccess file)

I know I could use a regular expression to get it out of the URL. But is there another way to get it with a Q2A function?