Question

I’m using Buddypress with Buddypress like plugin and I want to get ids of all posts liked by a logged in user. There is a row in a database called bp_liked_blogposts with an array as a value. The row looks like this:

I tried to display this field using get_user_meta function and then implode the array with PHP to list of values. The result was “blogpost_liked”,”blogpost_liked”… but I need to get the number that goes after i:

I’m not PHP or Mysql expert so I need some help with this. Thank you.

Answer 1

You don’t need to manually explode that data. The data is stored in JSON format. You can use json_decode to automatically construct an array out of your data.