Topic: problem in display order – bp_has_member

problem in display order – bp_has_member

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

11 years, 10 months ago

Hello,

I’m having trouble showing the members of my social network through bp_has_members.

I need to display them in a specific order. For this I created a function that takes data from a table outside and BuddyPress stores ids of members and other information (called table “filter”).

This function returns the ids separated by comma.
So I use the optional attribute “include” inside the loop.

The explanation is a little complex, but I will show in practice. Looks like this:
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id. ‘& per_page = 30’)):

Where, example, $id = ‘8, 9,3,2 ‘;

But the BuddyPress rearranges the display order of the members this way:
2,3,8,9

I need it to display the members in order that I sent:
8,9,3,2

Can anyone help me solve this? Thank you.

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 10 months ago

Afaik, bp_has_members will default to sorting the returned array by ‘last_active’, thereby wiping out the order of your $id string.

Using populate_extras might stop that:

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id. ‘& per_page = 30& populate_extras=false’)):
`

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

11 years, 10 months ago

BuddyPress doesn’t use that parameter for any sort of ordering. It’s just an array of IDs to be included in the query. The ‘type’ parameter controls this; see bp_core_get_users().

I think you would have to re-order the results of the query after it is made.

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 10 months ago

The returned users are always sorted by the ‘type’.
I’ve never tried setting ‘type’ to null …?

It would be great to have a ‘type = unsorted’ (enhancement ?)
I’ve had tasks where that would be very handy.

>I think you would have to re-order the results of the query after it is made.
That’s tough to do – and still use the members-loop and pagination.

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

11 years, 10 months ago

populate_extras not work!

In which file to find the function bp_core_get_users()?

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

11 years, 10 months ago

I thought about doing something like:

for($x=0;$x<30;$x++)

q but I think the performance will be impaired.
What do you think?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 10 months ago

Probably won’t work, but try these and let us know:

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id . ‘&per_page = 30&type=NULL’)):
`

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id . ‘&per_page = 30&type=dummy’)):
`

haydenjameslee
Participant

@haydenjameslee

10 years, 1 month ago

I have the same problem as this post and have tried your solutions with no luck shanebp. Any further ideas?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

10 years, 1 month ago

Yes, BP_User_Query now supports preserving the order the ‘user_ids’ parameter.

So if you’re using a function to collect member ids, take a look at

BP_User_Query

Note the last entry.