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well, I had to do some hacking in when and how it would reset the cookies… from this:
`
/* If no current step is set, reset everything so we can start a fresh group creation */
if ( !$bp->groups->current_create_step = $bp->action_variables[1] ) {

unset( $bp->groups->current_create_step );
unset( $bp->groups->completed_create_steps );
setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
setcookie( ‘bp_completed_create_steps’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
$reset_steps = true;
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/step/’ . array_shift( array_keys( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps ) ) . ‘/’ );
}

/* If this is a creation step that is not recognized, just redirect them back to the first screen */
if ( $bp->action_variables[1] && !$bp->groups->group_creation_steps[$bp->action_variables[1]] ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘There was an error saving group details. Please try again.’, ‘buddypress’), ‘error’ );
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/’ );
}

/* Fetch the currently completed steps variable */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) && !$reset_steps ) {
$bp->groups->completed_create_steps = unserialize( stripslashes( $_COOKIE ) );
}

/* Set the ID of the new group, if it has already been created in a previous step */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) ) {
$bp->groups->new_group_id = $_COOKIE;
$bp->groups->current_group = new BP_Groups_Group( $bp->groups->new_group_id );
}
`
to:
`
/* If no current step is set, reset everything so we can start a fresh group creation */
if ( !$bp->groups->current_create_step = $bp->action_variables[1] ) {

unset( $bp->groups->current_create_step );
unset( $bp->groups->completed_create_steps );
//setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
//setcookie( ‘bp_completed_create_steps’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
$reset_steps = true;
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/step/’ . array_shift( array_keys( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps ) ) . ‘/’ );
} else {
/* Set the ID of the new group, if it has already been created in a previous step */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) ) {
$bp->groups->new_group_id = $_COOKIE;
$bp->groups->current_group = new BP_Groups_Group( $bp->groups->new_group_id );
}
}

/* If this is a creation step that is not recognized, just redirect them back to the first screen */
if ( $bp->action_variables[1] && !$bp->groups->group_creation_steps[$bp->action_variables[1]] ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘There was an error saving group details. Please try again.’, ‘buddypress’), ‘error’ );
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/’ );
}

/* Fetch the currently completed steps variable */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) && !$reset_steps ) {
$bp->groups->completed_create_steps = unserialize( stripslashes( $_COOKIE ) );
}
`

inside bp_groups.php inside buddypress plugin. Finally works for me…

Notice I completely removed the need to set the cookie with a past date (deleting it) and instead just check for an existing cookie AFTER the first step.

somewhere in between group-details and group-settings `bp_new_group_id` cookie is getting wiped out… can’t figure out why yet…

bp_is_group_creation_step() is failing. inside there if ( !bp_are_previous_group_creation_steps_complete( $step_slug ) ) is failing… inside there, return bp_is_group_creation_step_complete( $previous_steps ); is failing… inside there if ( !$bp->groups->completed_create_steps ) is failing… Which means that step two is not storing that it has been created…

bp_groups.php in buddypress plugin is not keeping $bp->groups->new_group_id between the group-details step and the group-settings step. Group settings step is supposed to update the group that was created in the group-details step. See line 1096:
`if ( !$bp->groups->new_group_id = groups_create_group( array( ‘group_id’ => $bp->groups->new_group_id, ‘status’ => $group_status, ‘enable_forum’ => $group_enable_forum ) ) )`

But it’s creating a new one because it didn’t have the id (thus the duplicate empty database entry). Now looking into why the new_group_id isn’t carrying over. I verified it’s being set and shows right after the first save…

You just need to replicate the whole section after the `if(function_exists(‘bp_has_profile’)) :` but pass the parameter for the group required i.e ‘profile_group_id=2’

I’ll warn you in advance the trick is going to be working through the mire of if/elses there’s a mess of them, tha whole page should have could have been written better!

There’s a plugin to deal with the links in profiles, look through the plugin list .

@hnla

Thanks for the help. I understand how to create additional groups and fields. In there it says only fields added to the base group or ID=1 will be displayed on the registration page. Looking at Dorothy’s page it looks like she has multiple groups in there. I wanted to do the same. I don’t see a way of creating a group under that base group.

I could create all of the fields under the base group but this will cause display issues under the profile. I want certain info to display in a certain order (company and contact information). Code in register.php only calls one group. Not proficient in php enough to change it to call one or more by ID. Obviously the base group is 1. Can change this to any other but need to add multiple. i.e. group 1 and 3. Any ideas would help me a lot.

<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_has_profile' ) ) : if ( bp_has_profile( 'profile_group_id=1' ) ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?
missing closing at the end i know
Do you know also why all of the information in a profile display as a link? Please see http://marketplace.questus5.com for more information. Thanks in advance for any help.

thnaks @boonebgorges ,
somehow first place where I get mistake is your mentioned `if` before `bp_has_profile`
taking all together I got this code for profile-loop.php :

`

<?php
$field_id = xprofile_get_field_id_from_name( ‘Account Type’ );
$field = xprofile_get_field( $field_id );
$value = $field->data->value;

if ( bp_the_profile_group_name() == ‘Account Type’ && $value == ‘Selection 1’ ) {
(if ( bp_has_profile( ‘profile_group_id=1,4’ ) ) ?>

<div class="bp-widget “>

<tr>

}

`

does this code make any sense for anyone?
Am I correct, that even if I will get this code to work, it still returns only one selection of radio button?

thank you!

A couple things –

– You need an `if` before `bp_has_profile`, eg `( if ( bp_has_profile( ‘profile_group_id=1,3,4’ ) ) ) :`
– You’ll need to close the ifs and whiles; before the final `}` put `endwhile; endif;`
– You need to actually display some content after bp_the_profile_group();. Look at the xprofile templates (bp-themes/bp-default/profile…) to get a sense of the template tags you’ll use inside of the loop to display content.

`<?php
$field_id = xprofile_get_field_id_from_name( ‘Type’ );
$field = xprofile_get_field( $field_id );
$value = $field->data->value;

if ( bp_the_profile_group_name() == ‘Type’ && $value == ‘114’ ) {
( bp_has_profile( ‘profile_group_id=1,3,4′ ) ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group();
}
?>`

Full code, which should be placed in profile-loop.php,
Did I understand correctly, what @boonebgorges tried to explain?
@hnla please, take a look on this.

thank you guys!

Had a quick look through your group extension and I saw a couple things. You shouldn’t call $bp->groups->new_group_id on the edit screen functions, cause it only exists when you create a group. That basically means that your edit_screen_save function uses $group_id and that variable hasn’t been declared, so it’s empty. Use $bp->groups->current_group->id and your group meta’ll get saved as expected.

`
$group = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id );
groups_invite_user( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘group_id’ => $group_id, ‘inviter_id’ => $group->creator_id, ‘is_confirmed’ => $is_confirmed ) );
groups_send_invites( $group->creator_id, $group_id );
`

Try this:
`$group = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id );`

$group will then be an object containing the group name and a few other pieces of info. You’ll need to use bp_core_fetch_avatar() to get the avatar.

The most straightforward way is to hook a custom function to `comment_post` and `edit_comment`. The function would look something like this (mainly copied-and-pasted from bp-blogs.php, `bp_blogs_record_comment()` ):

`
function boone_record_blog_comment_to_group( $comment_id, $is_approved = true ) {

$action = ‘something’; // here’s where you’ll put together the action, something like ‘[Group member] commented on [blog post]’, with the appropriate links;

$content = ‘something’; // Get the comment content from the $comment_id passed into the function

$primary_link = ‘something’; // Get the comment permalink from the $comment_id

$blog_id = ‘something’; // You’ll have to get the blog id either from $current_blog or from the comment metadata

groups_record_activity( array(
‘action’ => $action,
‘content’ => $content,
‘type’ => ‘new_blog_comment’,
‘item_id’ => $bp->groups->new_group_id,
‘secondary_item_id’ => $blog_id
) );

}
add_action( ‘comment_post’, ‘boone_record_blog_comment_to_group’, 10, 2 );
add_action( ‘edit_comment’, ‘boone_record_blog_comment_to_group’, 10 );
`

You’ll have to do the grunt work of figuring out how best to populate those variables at the beginning of the function, but this is a step in the right direction.

sure but you will need to modify a few theme files and wrap the post forms with a check

theme files contain the “Post a New Topic:” forms
groups/single/forum.php
forums/index.php

then some check like so
`if ( !bp_is_group() || ( bp_is_group() && ( is_site_admin() || groups_is_user_admin( bp_loggedin_user_id(), bp_get_group_id() ) || groups_is_user_mod( bp_loggedin_user_id(), bp_get_group_id() ) ) ) )`

you mean `bp_group_is_mod()` ?

also
`groups_is_user_mod( $user_id, $group_id )`
`groups_is_user_admin( $user_id, $group_id )`

MIght sound like a no-brainer, but have you declared the globals?
`global $wpdb, $bp;`

You also have FROM twice in your query.

Also, I don’t see why you’d need the inner join. All you need to do is this:
`$result = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT group_id, meta_value FROM {$bp->groups->table_name_groupmeta} WHERE meta_value = ‘United States’ AND meta_key = ‘state’ GROUP BY meta_value” ) );`

Haven’t actually tried the above query, but should be alright.

Here’s the short version.

In [theme]/forums/index.php, do a conditional check for $bp->current_action == ‘grouped’. (Depending on the URL structure of your site, you might have to use $bp->action_variables[0].) In other words, the ‘grouped’ code should only be displayed if ( $bp->current_action == ‘grouped’ ).

Then do a bp_has_groups loop for all the groups you want to appear. If that’s all your groups, you can just do bp_has_groups(). If you only want to do a certain number of groups, like on this site, do bp_has_groups( ‘include=4,5,6’ ) where 4, 5, 6 are groups that you want to include in the ‘grouped’ view.

Then, inside the `while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group()` loop, do a normal forums loop. Something like
`if ( bp_has_forum_topics( ‘forum_id=’ . groups_get_groupmeta( bp_get_group_id(), ‘forum_id’ ) ) )`
plus whatever arguments for max number, etc you want.

@psycolor: public group activities (e.g. joining a group, creating a group, posting updates) should appear in the standard activity stream. Which activities are not showing for you?

To hide private group activity from the activity stream – follow the instructions I gave for excluding blogs in this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/need-exclude-parameter-for-bp_has_activities/

Check whether the activity item action is group related, then use the primary id of the item to get the group_id, and then check whether it is one of your private groups.

As per my comment on blogs, you can do this for all activity loops by using the filter, or on a loop by loop basis.

@psycolor

You could look at using functions like:

groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id )
To test if the user is in a specific group, and only show the page if they are in the appropriate group. This is defined in bp-groups.php.

bp_is_member()
To simply check whether the current user is a member (and logged in). This is defined in bp-core-templatetags.php

There is also a group blogs plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-groupblog/

I don’t know if this can be adapted to implement the private pages for your group members.

Cheers, Roger

Glad i could help
@guigoz: all of the following support multiple arguments (this is right out of the bp-activity.php – line 577)
* ‘user_id’ => false, // user_id to filter on
* ‘object’ => false, // object to filter on e.g. groups, profile, status, friends
* ‘action’ => false, // action to filter on e.g. activity_update, profile_updated
* ‘primary_id’ => false, // object ID to filter on e.g. a group_id or forum_id or blog_id etc.
* ‘secondary_id’ => false, // secondary object ID to filter on e.g. a post_id

bp_forums_get_forum_topicpost_count( $forum_id ), where forum_id is groups_get_groupmeta( $bp->groups->current_group->id, ‘forum_id’ );

depends on the group_id – if you are within the group context then $bp->groups->current_group->id