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Re-do output bp_activity_content()

@xevo

Participant

15 years, 12 months ago

Hey Buddypress community,

I want to redo the output of the function bp_activity_content, I need another output from the function. I have an example of how it’s suppose to look (http://i36.tinypic.com/263hvfb.png), so basicly, I just need; the time in hours/minutes (which I float to right) – Delete (displayed as [D]) – username – event (as a link which links to the event). All on one line offcourse, I believe this looks better then such a huge activity stream with images and excerpts.

I tried preg_replace, but didn’t come far with that. Can someone help me with doing this?

Thanks,

Mitchell

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@xevo

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Bump, still havent found a solution for this.
@apeatling

Keymaster

15 years, 11 months ago
All of the content that is output with bp_activity_content() is stored in the database. This is mostly for performance reasons. If this data had to be recreated on each page load, you’d be looking at hundreds and hundreds of queries.

You can modify it with a filter though, but you’re limited to string replacement and css modifications:
```
function my_function( $content ) {

return $content; // do something with the content first

}

add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content', 'my_function' );
```
You can put this in your own plugin, or in bp-custom.php.
@xevo

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago

Ok, I’ll try writing my first ever wordpress function then.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
@xevo

Participant

15 years, 11 months ago
For the people that are interested, here’s what I ended up doing.
```
function get_activity_flatline( $content ) {

$striptags = array("<p>", "</p>");

$content2 = str_replace($striptags, "", $content);

$content3 = substr($content2, 0, strpos($content2, '<span class="time-since">'));

return $content3;

}

add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content', 'get_activity_flatline' );
```
Not pretty or anything, but it works for me. If you want the time to keep being displayed, change the <span class="time-since"> into

<blockquote>.

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