I’ve searched everywhere for this and I can’t find this. I want to include a function in my theme so that every post has a small excerpt of the buddypress profile field Bio. I’ve found examples of people wanting to expand the members loop and they were using things such as this

echo bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Bio' );

I can not get it to work in my post loop file. Is this possible? If so I would also like a way to truncate it at a set amount of words in case the bio is really long. Any way to do this.

Thanks

[@nahummadrid Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

If you mean for authors of the post. Here’s something you can do. Add it in the template where you want it. Remove the parts you don’t want, leave only bp_member_profile_data line. Don’t know how to limit text, easily.

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[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 2 months ago]

Might be a bit more straightforward to do something like this:
displayed_user->id ); echo $bio;

Before echoing the bio, you could try doing something like http://phpsense.com/php/php-word-splitter.html to truncate.

Good luck!

[@gearupandplay Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

@ nahummadrid This worked for me so thanks, I’m still sorting through it to dig out some stuff I don’t want but it is working and pulling the Bio.

Thank you both of you. Boone I tried your solution and it didn’t work. I’m not sure why. I tried it two ways, using ‘Bio’ and then ’19’ which was the field Id. For some reason it don’t work with my theme. I am looking over the link you gave me thought to see if I can truncate the data.

Thanks

[@gearupandplay Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

OK, apparently I’m not smart enough to figure out how to truncate it, haha. I didn’t understand the link you gave me at all so I’ve been trying to mess around with a code I found for truncating post titles but I can’t seem to get it to work. Here is what I’m trying to use.

$short_title = bp_member_profile_data('field=Bio','','',false);
$short_title = substr($short_title,0,30);
echo $short_title;

Any help would be appreciated

[@nahummadrid Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

@gearupandplay To limit the text try this:

for your functions.php :

function Wanna_Limit_Text($Text,$Min,$Max,$MinAddChar) {
if (strlen($Text) < $Min) {
$Limit = $Min-strlen($Text);
$Text .= $MinAddChar;
}
elseif (strlen($Text) >= $Max) {
$words = explode(” “, $Text);
$check=1;
while (strlen($Text) >= $Max) {
$c=count($words)-$check;
$Text=substr($Text,0,(strlen($words[$c])+1)*(-1));
$check++;
}
}

return $Text;
}

this for you template :

post_author )),10,90""); ?>

Where 90 is the number of characters and you just adjust that.

Good luck

[@gearupandplay Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

@nahummadrid thanks much, worked like a charm