[sdls]

Thanks for the help here’s a little snippet that checks for full name, and if none exists displays the username

`
/* Display Nice Name in Directory */
function my_member_username() {
global $members_template, $bp;
$display_name = $members_template->member->display_name;
if ($display_name) {
return $display_name;
} else {
return $members_template->member->user_login;
}
}
add_filter(‘bp_member_name’,’my_member_username’);

`

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how bout these little dudes?… no idea what they do

`

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Really you could just resize the original thumbnails to 100px X 100px and allow BP to resize them, however you don’t also get the crispness you need when designing nice little icons.

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I’m coming across the same barrier… Pulling the group image at different sizes is fine, however when you try and modify the group avatar size from the group admin perspective, it get’s a bit tricky. Try and upload and small icon for a group and you will notice it puts the little logo on a black background and resizes it akwardly.

Looking for something to hook onto to modify this setting and I can’t see anything pertaining to size in the BP template set

`

<input type="submit" name="upload" id="upload" value="” />

‘delete_group_avatar’, ‘component’ => ‘groups’, ‘wrapper_id’ => ‘delete-group-avatar-button’, ‘link_class’ => ‘edit’, ‘link_href’ => bp_get_group_avatar_delete_link(), ‘link_title’ => __( ‘Delete Avatar’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘link_text’ => __( ‘Delete Avatar’, ‘buddypress’ ) ) ); ?>

<img src="” id=”avatar-to-crop” class=”avatar” alt=”” />

<img src="” id=”avatar-crop-preview” class=”avatar” alt=”” />

<input type="submit" name="avatar-crop-submit" id="avatar-crop-submit" value="” />

<input type="hidden" name="image_src" id="image_src" value="” />

`

Any thoughts on how to modify size, right from the upload process?

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Been looking for this everywhere and still cannot find an answer…. will post back if I find something concise.

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wow it really was the dots!

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Must have been a database caching problem…. damn internet gremlins!
That first snippet worked as is with no changes…. just took 30 minutes to refresh
Thanks for your feedback both.

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answer me this one oh BP gurus and I promise never to but you about xprofile_get_field_data() again!

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understood.. thanks again Boone!

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thanks @boonebgorges !

WOW searching through all these new functions will be time consuming at first, but I’m sure will make things better over the long term. are these new to BP 1.5?

I’m so used to just using SQL to solve my problems these seems way complicated… (above my head and slightly to the left) So let’s say I just want to check for the whether a record exists, is it suggested that these BP functions should be used for all database communication?

for example… this checks for the existence of the field in the first place

`
$sql4 = “SELECT *
FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data XP
WHERE XP.user_id = $iUserID”;
$acheck_for_user_xprofile = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare($sql4));
if ($acheck_for_user_xprofile) {
$check_for_user_xprofile_answer = “yes“;
} else {
$check_for_user_xprofile_answer = “no”;
}
`

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Thanks both for the feedback!… looking into xprofile_insert_field() in bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php. This appears to be the function for adding a new profile field to the BP system.

`function xprofile_insert_field( $args = ” ) {
global $bp;

extract( $args );

/**
* Possible parameters (pass as assoc array):
* ‘field_id’
* ‘field_group_id’
* ‘parent_id’
* ‘type’
* ‘name’
* ‘description’
* ‘is_required’
* ‘can_delete’
* ‘field_order’
* ‘order_by’
* ‘is_default_option’
* ‘option_order’
*/

// Check we have the minimum details
if ( !$field_group_id )
return false;

// Check this is a valid field type
if ( !in_array( $type, (array) $bp->profile->field_types ) )
return false;

// Instantiate a new field object
if ( $field_id )
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( $field_id );
else
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field;

$field->group_id = $field_group_id;

if ( !empty( $parent_id ) )
$field->parent_id = $parent_id;

if ( !empty( $type ) )
$field->type = $type;

if ( !empty( $name ) )
$field->name = $name;

if ( !empty( $description ) )
$field->description = $description;

if ( !empty( $is_required ) )
$field->is_required = $is_required;

if ( !empty( $can_delete ) )
$field->can_delete = $can_delete;

if ( !empty( $field_order ) )
$field->field_order = $field_order;

if ( !empty( $order_by ) )
$field->order_by = $order_by;

if ( !empty( $is_default_option ) )
$field->is_default_option = $is_default_option;

if ( !empty( $option_order ) )
$field->option_order = $option_order;

return $field->save();
}
`
All I really need to do is add a little record into the existing “wp_bp_xprofile_data” table

This below code works however it’s definately not Open source friendly or BP friendly

`

// grab this users nicename

$user = get_userdata( $iallusersUserID );
$nicename = $user->user_nicename;
$last_udpated = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);

// create a new record in bp_xprofile_data and add the nicename

$wpdb->insert(
‘wp_bp_xprofile_data’,
array(
‘field_id’ => 1,
‘user_id’ => $iallusersUserID,
‘value’ => $nicename,
‘last_updated’ => $last_udpated
),
array(
‘%d’,
‘%d’,
‘%s’,
‘%s’
)
);
`

Any thoughts? Thanks again!

[sdls]

Something like this

`
$sql = “SELECT *
FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data XP
WHERE XP.user_id = $iallusersUserID”;
$xprofile = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare($sql));
`

should probably more like this

`
$sql = “SELECT *
FROM $wpdb->x_profile XP
WHERE XP.user_id = $iallusersUserID”;
$xprofile = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare($sql));
`

Maybe this whole style of calling a custom SQL query is way of track? any suggestions?

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That’s seems to be it… regardless of BP activity or “last activity” the table wp_bp_xprofile_data is the lowest common denominator of who is displayed in the members directory.

`
$sql4 = “SELECT *
FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data XP
WHERE XP.user_id = $iUserID”;
`

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Altough User A (ID:21) does show up in the table “wp_bp_xprofile_data”
It would be great if there was some help in bp_has_members
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/
To reference these orphaned users with a state…. like “inactive”

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On this same topic…..In the members directory in BP 1.5 user are displayed based on more criteria then mentioned by the discussion above.

User A (ID: 21) is showing up in the members directory but does NOT appear in the buddypress activity tables

`
$sql2 = “SELECT *
FROM wp_bp_activity activity
WHERE activity.user_id = $iUserID”;
`

OR the user_meta table

`
$sql3 = “SELECT *
FROM wp_usermeta UM
WHERE UM.user_id = $iUserID
AND UM.meta_key LIKE ‘last_activity'”;

`

Any thoughts on what’s making these members appear in the directory?

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@boonebgorges – Correctamundo. The text field for “To” is blank rather then being populated with the username.

@DJPaul – to get back to you on usernames see below

User A – archon2112
User B – Simon.delaSalle
User C – Tim.Powell

THANKS BOTH!

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SWEET youutube.com integration in the forumns!

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as @boone mentions have way through this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN7g0h8DPbE&feature=related
for posertity’s sake

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cheers !!!! @johnjamesjacoby and @mercime

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aaaa….. IC what’s going on here…. previously on child themes you would include the BP default theme as an @import at the top of your child theme style.css this is no longer neccesary with the way BP 1.5 loads the style. Just removed the reference and everything works great….

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Appreciate the response John, so just to clarify.

All child themes for Buddypress should reference their “style.css” using wp_enqueue_style() rather then the traditional WP style of including the style reference in the header.php file?

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that totally helped me @boonebgorges thanks!.

I’m trying to do something quite similar to Von. My goal is to create a new page, just like the
buddypress forumns / groups / achievements setup where you have a table of contents with “view all” and “my ____”.

Trying to integrate post content with this same setup…. sort of a “Browse all Posts” … “Browse My Posts”…. in the same format. This is both to take advantage of those nice little ajax togglers that modify the loop based on the ajax query…. but also to maintain visual consistency across the site.

Using page templates a new table of contents has been created for these posts “post/index.php” and “post/post-loop.php” using the exact same HTML and CSS as the BP template…. so it looks good… same format..

So…. you can toggle between “All Posts” and “My Posts”… but of course, the HTML and

id’s are hooked into the original ajax loop mods for forumn/index.php, so when you click on it it loads the original loop for “All Forumns” and “My Forumns”.

So first off…. trying to understand the Ajax call FROM the page… and I need to create a NEW one that triggers “All Posts” and “My Posts” correctly when the links are clicked on… Looking through bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring() in bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php… wow this looks complicated.

creating another action?
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_posts_filter’, ‘bp_dtheme_object_template_loader’ );

ANy help would be greatly appreciated!

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This worked perfectly thanks @dennissmolek…
one suggestion for those following this path….
in ovcbar.php you can’t copy and paste the whole bp-core-adminbar.php
you have too manually go in and copy paste the code from within the functions.

Don’t forget to wrap it in:

echo ‘

‘;
echo ‘

‘;

**your code here **

echo ‘

‘;
echo “

nn”;

so it format’s right.. …..thanks again

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hey there @anointed… I guess the key reason why “group blog plugin” won’t work is that “group blog’s” are created and manage by site owners and groups admins and the control and creation of this content takes place in the wp-admin/ backend.

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Heres an example of what I’m trying to achieve:

URL: http://emergineers.com.s26200.gridserver.com/groups/builders/forum/

Conversation takes 2 forms….a quick discussion or a more in depth post called a “nugget” (just a placeholder name ) with meta, taxonomy, commenting, and media associated.

Thoughts?

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right on…. @anointed and @4ella… this does provide some more possibilities… and definately some useful code snippets looking into these plug-ins.

Regarding the group blog plugin……..Implementing MU, P2 theme, and setting up “networks” might be a little overkill for this purpose…. as it looks like creation and editing of posts by group members is still limited in terms of being able to include meta fields and custom taxonomies, and would have to built from scratch regardless. As well the media manager and other WP publishing tools are not part of this plug-in / theme setup.

my feeling that IF this extended functionality needs to be built ON TOP of MU / buddypress plug-in such as “groupblog” (which is an awesome plug-in by the way) things can get complicated quickly….. (and unnecessarily)…..

So the cleanest solution so far seems to be matching posts to groups using taxonomy…. which Im sure we could agree could be improved upon greatly…..

Thanks again for the feedback!