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Well,

I tried remove_action on the function I found that I want to customize, but it doesn’t work apparently because bp-custom.php is being loaded before bp-friends. I tried this in my theme’s functions.php as well, but it still does not work. What am I doing wrong?

/***
* Create custom functions for buddypress so updates do not override customizations
*/

function my_friends_setup_nav() {
global $bp;

/* Add ‘Friends’ to the main navigation */
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Friends (%d)2222′, ‘buddypress’ ), friends_get_total_friend_count() ), ‘slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘position’ => 60, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘item_css_id’ => $bp->friends->id ) );

$friends_link = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->friends->slug . ‘/’;

/* Add the subnav items to the friends nav item */
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘position’ => 10, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘friends-my-friends’ ) );
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Requests’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘requests’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_requests’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘user_has_access’ => bp_is_my_profile() ) );

if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->friends->slug ) {
if ( bp_is_my_profile() ) {
$bp->bp_options_title = __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ );
} else {
$bp->bp_options_avatar = bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $bp->displayed_user->id, ‘type’ => ‘thumb’ ) );
$bp->bp_options_title = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;
}
}

do_action( ‘my_friends_setup_nav’);
}
remove_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘friends_setup_nav’);
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_friends_setup_nav’);

Thank you. Since I’m not good with php, my interpretation doesn’t seem to work. This is the echo statement to get the avatar to show, however, I’m not sure that the user_id argument works. The area for this statement is blank.

echo bp_core_fetch_avatar(‘type=thumb&width=30&height=30&user_id=1’);

Hi @r-a-y
Its again you to my rescue!
Thanks. Yeah I had looked up on Bp_core_fetch_avatar function in bp-core-avatars.php file, and that it has a parameter ‘object’ => with the comment that we can use it if we are using filter.

Its just that I could not figure out how to do it. Tried few things unsuccessfully.

Would it be possible for you to guide me here. Lets say I am uploading my avatars in the standard file-size in some folder in the format “grpavtr_(group_id).png”, then how do I do it…. Have been stuck with this problem (and one more) for a week now…
I am sure I would go out and have a beer once I’m done with this….

Nevermind, I googled for that function and found the SVN repo where that function is defined: http://bp-dev.org/phpxref/nav.html?_functions/index.html

The params it takes are:

$defaults = array(
‘item_id’ => false,
‘object’ => ‘user’, // user OR group OR blog OR custom type (if you use filters)
‘type’ => ‘thumb’,
‘avatar_dir’ => ‘avatars’,
‘width’ => false,
‘height’ => false,
‘class’ => ‘avatar’,
‘id’ => false,
‘alt’ => __( ‘Avatar Image’, ‘buddypress’ ),
);

… and the params can be fed into bp_core_fetch_avatar() in the form of “name=value&name=value” pairs as a string.

Hope this helps someone else who is having the same issue.

YOU ARE AMAZING! You know, you just redeemed my whole afternoon of work. Hooray I owe you a beer for that one!

Well… here’s the postscript. It all comes back to one thing I’ve been frustrated with: why is there no good documentation on BP or BBpress template tags? I had to search the code repo to find a hint that bp_core_get_avatar() was deprecated in favor of bp_core_fetch_avatar(), and after that still didn’t know that I had to put “item_id=” before the ID in the argument string. Not sure how I would have figured that one out on my own, given my apparent lack of PHP reading skills.

If someone knows a secret source of well-documented template tags, do let me know. All I’ve found so far is https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-template-tags/ for Buddypress (which doesn’t even have bp_core_fetch_avatar() listed). Bummer.

Okay, I do have one last question for you: what other params does bp_core_fetch_avatar() take, and how can I find out? for instance, can I specify a different size of avatar?