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Burt, is there any way to add info to the bbGroups array from the extended profile area to be available inside bbPress? Or is there a different method to do this easily? I noticed that the extended profile data in the DB isn’t stored as simply as the user-meta table is, rather each entry associates itself with a corresponding value in another table.

Say for example in the extended profile area, I want to have “aim, yahoo, google talk” fields, and I want each post in bbPress to have links to what each author entered in extended profile. Possible?

After hours working on that I found a solution, but isn’t definitive and already have a bug! Let’s go. Nicolas, don’t kill me – i’m trying to help!

In the line 728 on bp-xprofile-classes.php just copy and paste the code bellow:

<div id="titlediv">

This code will add an opition in the field edit screen / at ProfileFields Admin – to keep the data private for “non friend users”

But the problem is IF the field have data and you aren’t a friend, you will see the field name, but the data will be hidden. look at my birthday http://voiceover-casting.com/members/admin/

I have tryed do the same with the Groups Fields but doesn’t work. Maybe someone can help me to create “Hidden Field Groups” and found a fix my newbie solusion for the “Private Fields” bug.

Could be nice if in a new version the admin and the users can select “Who can see the data” like: “Public, Only Friends, Hidden (only visible for admin and the owner), “.

Nicolas, I will donate for you soon for your great job.

I think the idea is not to have BuddyPress permanently alter the WordPress related data.

I’m new to BP and so I’m not familiar with how all the functions work, but what in the original WP data structure would be altered by deprecating fullname in favor of using the WP fields?

…then really BuddyPress should be able to modify ALL of the original WordPress user info exactly like the profile admin panel does…

I would like that, actually. Or at least to have the option to have the profile be able to modify that information.

I want the original WP functionality that allows a user to choose which fields — username, first name, last name, or nickname — to display for them. I thought that was a great addition to WP and I don’t like that installing BP has effectively cut me and my users off from that choice without some serious code modification on my end.

Great! It works!

@mikepratt, Burt nailed it on the head, but I’d like to add that I think many people are still stuck in the forum world, and haven’t peeked their heads out to see that social networking has evolved in the past 5 years or so. I know on lots of car or video game forums, it’s basically just a free for all chat fest, and trying to convert those minds into using BuddyPress or WordPress alone is too big of a change; I’ve tried it twice now with little success. Having a dedicated familiar looking forum but using BuddyPress to emphasize the social atmosphere helps those stubborn users transition a little easier and allow them to fallback on the features of a dedicated forum in the event it doesn’t work out.

@burt, I noticed on your Common Interest site that you have the forums separated between public and group. I would like to do something similar, and am curious as to how you did so. Also, is there an easy way to tap into the profile fields/user information from BuddyPress and display it as post author information in bbPress?

Yeah, I think in general it would be nice if buddypress played well with the wpmu profile fields, or at least if they could snyc up somehow. I was able to manually run some mysql queries to import all of my old data, but being able to use the same “display name” would be helpful!

This is fixed in the latest.

Bug, looks like something broke, I’ll fix this today.

Hi Paul.

With “save these values” do you mean that the values aren’t saved when you create the fields or when the users selects the appropriate value in their profile?

The topic https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=843 has been closed and i feel sorry for it, because with my later installation wp MU 2.7 + BP béta 2, i’m still having this error msg :

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/np5397/domains/blogi.ee/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 104

when creating a new blog

that cause several issues :

– can’t edit the profiles, create a group

– blogs are created but aren’t showing in the recent activity, neither in the blogs tabs or in his owner’s profile

– can’t send a message, invite somebody to be friend, etc

it seems that i have no x-profile tables in my db like burtadsit asks

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_groups

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_fields

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_data

here is the list of the tables in my db ; can’t see it

wp_1_comments,

wp_1_links,

wp_1_options,

wp_1_postmeta,

wp_1_posts,

wp_1_term_relationships,

wp_1_term_taxonomy,

wp_1_terms,

wp_2_comments,

wp_2_links,

wp_2_options,

wp_2_postmeta,

wp_2_posts,

wp_2_term_relationships,

wp_2_term_taxonomy,

wp_2_terms,

wp_3_comments,

wp_3_links,

wp_3_options,

wp_3_postmeta,

wp_3_posts,

wp_3_term_relationships,

wp_3_term_taxonomy,

wp_3_terms,

wp_4_comments,

wp_4_links,

wp_4_options,

wp_4_postmeta,

wp_4_posts,

wp_4_term_relationships,

wp_4_term_taxonomy,

wp_4_terms,

wp_blog_versions,

wp_blogs,

wp_registration_log,

wp_signups,

wp_site,

wp_sitecategories,

wp_sitemeta,

wp_usermeta,

wp_users

please how can i create manually those tables in my sqlDB ?

thanks for any advice

Hi.

First off you need to add some fields to the fields groups in order för them to show up.

After that they show up in two ways; when you fill out/edit your profile they show up as “tabs” at the top of the profile form.

When viewing a public profile they show up as sections, provided that the users has entered anything in a field in that field group.

HTH.

Lets start from scratch here. Do you have the x-profile tables in you db? You should have:

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_groups

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_fields

(tableprefix_)bp_xprofile_data

Where (tableprefix_) is set to something like ‘wp_’ depending on how you specified it on wpmu install.

When you look at the tables with phpMyAdmin is there any data in the bp_xprofile_groups table? There should be 1 record in there on a clean install. id == 1 and name == ‘Basic’.

In the table bp_xprofile_fields there should be 1 record it should have id == 1, group_id == 1 and name == ‘Full Name’.

If you don’t have all the above you will get the error you describe. If you don’t have all of that then the required tables for bp are not being created and populated properly.

For now, I simply commented out the line

add_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2, 3 );

on line 14 of bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-filters.php. The current fn simply makes way too many words into search hyperlinks.

I have been hoping to do this for at least 3 weeks now. Wouldn’t it be better if the profile fields could be broken up? The make searchable would work perfect for other data. When checking make searchable, the formatting of links would not apply allowing more data customization options such as links.

However, this still leaves the issue of lumping data together. All data that is marked or shown under the profile leaves no way to truly customize it. So then it would be better if data was segmented to allow a type of include or not to include–that way you can post the data where you would like. Or how about the option of adding data to group segments? A drag and drop approach through the control panel.

For instance, you could drag a field under PROFILE or if you would rather have it show up under LINKS then you have the option to drag it under that category.

Then in the profile you would have to add the options for categories, not just:

<?php if ( function_exists(‘xprofile_get_profile’) ) : ?>

<?php xprofile_get_profile() ?>

<?php else : ?>

<?php bp_core_get_wp_profile() ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Howdy. I don’t see any way to do this other than disabling the ‘make everything a search term’ filter which exists in bp-xprofile-filters.php. That filter is called ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’ and you can disable it by creating a small plugin file which contains the following:

remove_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data',2 );

Then the new ‘make clickable’ filter can take over and voila. You got a link if the user enters http://myblog.yoursite.org

There are other ways of doing this but this seems to be the easiest and fastest.

Create a profile field called ‘my blog’, make it a textfield and you’re done.

You might want to post a bug ticket in trac that details your inability to do this. An enhancement ticket might suggest a ‘make searchable’ on/off button for all profile fields. ‘eh?

Absolutely agree with point #1 – ability to order fields and move between groups would be a nice usability feature.

you’ve to add a filter in bp_get_item (if i remember good or a thing like that

Apart from the BP-profile integration, each user can easily add a Google Map on their blogs using the tags in http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps

I’ve also added the possibility to get markers from an XML-feed. If you, in the WP Google Maps settings, click on the “See example…”-link you see the URL to an XML-feed that will return markers for 20 of the users withint the viewport of the current map. You can use this to display a map on your front page displaying where the different members on your site lives.

In the “Marker XML Feed Fields” input field you can specify the names of the different fields of the markers returned by the XML-feed.

In the “Marker XML Feed HTML Pattern” you can set how the information will be presented when someone clicks on a marker.

I will write a more detailed description on how things work on http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps when I get the time to do so.

Hi bergsten!

Plugin works fine so long. What´s your plan with the plugin? Mayby a profile-integration is possible (under profile fields under the wp-mu backend)?

i’ve found this function –

function xprofile_filter_link_profile_data( $field_value, $field_type, $field_id ) {

if ( $field_type == 'datebox' )

return $field_value;



if ( !strpos( $field_value, ',' ) && ( count( explode( ' ', $field_value ) ) > 5 ) )

return $field_value;



$values = explode( ',', $field_value );



if ( $values ) {

foreach ( $values as $value ) {

$value = trim( $value );



if ( count( explode( ' ', $value ) ) > 5 )

$new_values[] = $value;

else

$new_values[] = '<a href="' . site_url() . '/' . MEMBERS_SLUG . '/?s=' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a>';

}



$values = implode( ', ', $new_values );

}



return $values;

}

add_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2, 3 );

so EVERY field is ‘link’ field.. i think this is not so good ;/

next stape i think should be creation of new field_types, and applying filters to this field_types in this function. but where are this types and how to create new ones i don’t know..