[louie171]

update: I wrote the code. It all seems to work fine (except), it doesn’t seem to affect the query (i.e. the results in members index page are not right). Not sure why ?

Any input would be hugely appreciated:

function add_groups_to_members_search(  $query_args  ) {
    
    $search = esc_sql($_REQUEST['search_terms']);  // search box on members index page
    
    global $wpdb;
    
    // get users in groups that search term is like
    $sql = "SELECT m.user_id FROM wp_bp_groups g, wp_bp_groups_members m where g.id = m.group_id and g.name like '%$search%'"; 
    
    $myrows = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );
       
    $user_ids = array();
    
    foreach ($myrows as $obj ) {        
        $user_ids[] = $obj->user_id;      
    }
    
    $query_args['include'] = $user_ids;
    
    return $query_args;
    
}

add_filter( 'bp_before_has_members_parse_args', 'add_groups_to_members_search', 999999, 1 );

[louie171]

ok, after abit of digging I found away that might work.

Buddypress seems to WP_User_Query for the members query, so I can filter on pre_get_users

what I’m going todo is run a query where to find all users what are in a group that search term matches e.g. (pseudo query haven’t looked at the tables yet)

select ids_of_users from users, groups
where group_name like ‘%SEARCH_TERM%’ (join users and groups)

Then from the ids above I can do something like this:

$query->set( ‘include’, (array) $user_ids );

looks like that should work, but welcome any input.

[louie171]

thanks David, I think I’ll probably go with your suggestion and use the groups built-in directory page.

[louie171]

thanks David, I figured it out.

It would be good if https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/group-types/

continued the example at the top of the page i.e. teams eg mysite.com/groups/type/teams instead of ninja as lower on the page.

(note teams not team).

[louie171]

thanks ray I’ve detailed a code example of how I did this on my blog