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I am sure this is the absolute worst way of going about this but I figured a way to do this for my users. we have a pretty active forum during the football season and so it helps to have something to show which threads you have replied in. 

anyway I modified just before the start of column 2 in spForumViewDesktop.php and displayed two images one for if the user posted in the thread ond one for if they didn't. 

global $wpdb;

$current_user = wp_get_current_user();

if ($current_user->ID != 0) {

$myThisTopic = $spThisTopic->topic_id;
$thisUserId = $current_user->ID ;

$wpdb->get_results("select post_id from wp_sfposts where topic_id = ".$myThisTopic." and user_id = ".$thisUserId." limit 1");
$rowcount = $wpdb->num_rows;
if($rowcount != 0){
echo "";
}else{
echo "";
}

}else{
echo "";
}

This is a common feature on almost every forum I've managed whether that is ip.board (native) vbulletin or simplemachines (plugin). 

When you have users that are active in many posts and your forum is quite active it is nice to know which posts you have posted in with a visual hint. It makes scanning the list of topics easy to know which topics you have a level of interest in already. It is one of the highest features that people were missing when we converted. 

Query is pretty simple. I am not getting a list of post_id's. I am getting one post id.  it's returning a single post id if the user posted in that topic because of the limit 1 constraint. If they did post then an image is displayed for that topic in forum view. If not then a different topic is displayed. This is how it works in ip.board. 

i should have thought to put in the $spUser->ID I just had copied over the query I was using to see if I could pull whether or not a user had posted in a thread. Will switch to $spUser->ID.

Sans query I don't know how else I would figure out if the current viewing user had posted in the thread. I looked through the data inspector and didn't see any sort of array containing a list of users that had replied to the topic. At lease not in forum view.

I am curious to see your notifications upgrade as there are several things that are severely lacking in display on the forum itself. Whether or not someone quoted you, whether or not someone thanked/liked your post, admin notifications that a post was reported. We had to rewrite a custom section for this as well. 

Oh I actually love the ability to play with customization and child themes and not worrying too much about breaking anything too badly. It is pretty awesome. 

on the get_var() though on the wordpress site  It says:

Executes a SQL query and returns the value from the SQL result. If the SQL result contains more than one column and/or more than one row, this function returns the value in the column and row specified. If $query is null, this function returns the value in the specified column and row from the previous SQL result.

I wonder about the bolded part causing an issue. Say on one topic listing the user did respond. but in the next they didn't. Would the query then show that they did since it would default to the previous query's result? I have to be reading that wrong. 

Here is what the current working code looks like:

global $wpdb;

if ($spThisUser->ID != 0) {
$reply_count = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) from wp_sfposts where topic_id = ".$spThisTopic->topic_id." and user_id = ".$spThisUser->ID." LIMIT 1");
if($reply_count != 0){
echo "<img src='http://www.vikefans.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/reboot-child/images/iPosted.png'>";
}else{
echo "<img src='http://www.vikefans.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/reboot-child/images/noPost.png'>";
}

}else{
echo "<img src='http://www.vikefans.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/reboot-child/images/noPost.png'>";
}