[smuddah]

i’m looking for a way to display the unread messages info (which looks like this in html)

<span class="unread-count inbox-count" style="display: inline;">1</span>

to be in the footer of my site.

is there a snippet for it?

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() is the function to call for creating the notifications menu… you will have to play with that.

[smuddah]

oh, i thought there might be an easier way. like <?php bp_show_unread_count() ?>

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

you can easily recreate a new function with the one i provided, so instead of creating a dropdown menu it would simply show a count…

[smuddah]

thanks nexia, i will checkout the docu.

[Andy Peatling]

<?php bp_total_unread_messages_count() ?>

[Simon Dabkowski]

Here’s what I use:

<?php

global $bp;

$hmag_inbox_count = messages_get_unread_count();

if ($hmag_inbox_count > ‘9’) {

$hmag_inbox_count = ‘9+’;

}

echo ‘<span class=”your-style”>’.$hmag_inbox_count.'</span>’;

?>

Displays a number for # of unread. If the count is greater then 9, it displays 9+

[smuddah]

i want my personal andy peatling right beside me when i play with buddypress.

thanks a lot everyone!

even tho the code doesn’t check for »pendig friendships« it’s pretty cool!

<?php bp_total_unread_messages_count() ?>

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

having a Andy Peatling in my living room when i code, would be really annoying… sorry but we would have to debate the usage of each function… not good.

ROFL!

[smuddah]

i thought <?php bp_core_get_notifications_for_user() ?> might get all notifications, but that’s just empty. hmm

[drebabels]

Just a note “ echos the count.
If you want to return the count without the echo use “

[adamt19]

Bumping to re-post the information that @drebabels posted but looks to have been lost due to use of quotes

bp_total_unread_messages_count() uses echo. So if you use this within an ‘echo’ you’ll get unexpected results (value doesn’t print where you expect it to in the DOM, in my experience)

add ‘get’, e.g. bp_get_total_unread_messages_count() to simply return the # of messages for the logged-in user in your code