Retrieve number of replies to a post?

[SulevFan]

I've looked and can't find this.

Is there a way that given a topic number, I can ask SMF for how many  replies that topic has?

We use the SMF SSi for a few other things, eg, authentication for our wiki, but it does not seem to provide this function.

[Steve]

Couldn't you just append the topic number onto your forum's url?

e.g. https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=577638.0

That would take you to this topic and show the number of replies. A couple of extra clicks but I don't know of an easier way. Maybe someone else on the team does.

[Shambles]

You just need to query the {smf}_topics table for id_topic=topic and extract the num_replies value.

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<?php
$wanted_topic=57667;   // <== 

$req=$smcFunc['db_query']('',
   'select num_replies from smf_topics where id_topic = {int:topic}',
   array('topic' => $wanted_topic));

$row = $smcFunc['db_fetch_assoc']($req);

$number = $row['num_replies'];


[SulevFan]

You just need to query the {smf}_topics table for id_topic=topic and extract the num_replies value.

TYVM, much appreciated.