When using bp_activity_add() to update an activity, I am having a bit of a challenge. I have tried two approaches:
1. create an array of the elements needed to update, with a known activity id and pass them to bp_activity_add()
eg.
`$activity=array(‘id’=>533,’hide_sitewide’ => true,’content’=>’test 1′, ‘action’=>’test test’);
do_action(‘bp_activity_add’,$activity);`
2. Create an activity object and add assign the ID property and pass it to bp_activity_add()
eg.
`$activity = new BP_Activity_Activity ();
$activity->ID=533;
$activity->hide_sitewide=true;
$activity->content=”test 1″;
$activity->action=”test test”;
do_action(‘bp_activity_add’,$activity);`

What am I missing? Is there a different way to do this?

Please advise.

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

something like:

`
$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array( ‘id’ => 555, ‘action’ => ‘something new and blue’ );
`

no reason to use the do_action – that is just a trigger point for hooking into buddypress.

make sure you capture all the previous activity data and pass that back in – performs a full sql update on all cols (see the code in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity-stream/ )

[@webdevmatt Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Odd, no luck. Data is not changed, and nothing is returned in $activity_id. Any thoughts?

@nuprn1 are you saying that I need to capture all the activity data and pass it back to the bp_activity_add() in order for the update to be executed?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Change “action” to “content” in Rich’s code.

[@webdevmatt Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

I actually did that as well and had the same result .
`$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array( ‘id’ => 468, ‘content’ => ‘something new and blue’ ));`

You would think one of these would work.

[@webdevmatt Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

I have tried attempting this from a couple different pages. Originally from post-form.php and also from the main activity loop with no luck. It doesn’t appear that I’m doing anything special?

[@nicholmikey Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Did anyone get a solution to this? I have tried several methods of adding activities to the stream with no luck.

[@nicholmikey Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

So far I have tracked the problem to bp-activity-classes, in the save() function, for some reason {$bp->activity->table_name} is returning nothing so the SQL structure ends up missing a table name. Makes no sense as other plugins like bbpress uses this save() feature and works fine.

[@kovshenin Participant 12 years ago]

The table_name variable is populated during init, so looks like you’re calling bp_activity_add before bp is initialized. Try doing that during init with a lower priority, like 99. Worked for me 🙂