SQL DB error when there are no premium forums

[traversal]

Hey guys.

After an hour and a half of scratching my head and wading through the crazy flow of BBP filters, I’ve found that there’s a problem with your ‘bbps_get_all_premium_topic_ids’ function in ‘includes/bbps-common-functions.php’.

This function throws a nasty “There is an error in your SQL syntax” error when there are no premium forums in a site.

It needs a check on the $exclude variable so that the post_parent IN clause is not served an empty list.

function bbps_get_all_premium_topic_ids(){
global $wpdb;
	$forum_query = "SELECT <code>post_id</code> FROM ". $wpdb->postmeta ." WHERE <code>meta_key</code> = '_bbps_is_premium'" ;
	$premium_forums = $wpdb->get_col($forum_query);

	$exclude = implode(",", $premium_forums);

	$premium_topics = array();

	if (!empty($exclude)) {
  	$topics_query = "SELECT <code>id</code> FROM ". $wpdb->posts ." WHERE <code>post_parent</code> IN (".$exclude.")" ;
  	$premium_topics = $wpdb->get_col($topics_query);
  }

	return $premium_topics;
}

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