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Yup, that is the problem it seems – the old 2-theme structure.

I am using the premium ‘edu-clean’ home theme coupled with the BP default ‘bpmember’ theme which is no longer in existence after I have upgraded my BP to 1.1.2. I needed to customize my ‘register’ page. Instead of using WPMU wp-signup.php, I wanted my signup page similar to bphome’s.

To accomplish this, I simply created a page template(register.php) similar to bphome’s. Added a new page with the register slug, associated it with this template and made the user redirect from wp-signup.php to /register.

My problem is, on my register template I have used <?php bp_core_signup_do_signup() ?> to display the registration form in the left-column widget. Now, from what I understand, this function is deprecated in 1.1.2. Perhaps, this is the reason my profile fields aren’t getting saved? I still am not sure, but in any case, I would like to replace this function with its equivalent function in 1.1.2.

I want to retain this layout (i.e using edu-clean as the WPMU theme and bpmember as the BP theme) as of now. I still haven’t gotten the hang of the new single-theme architecture, but I’m working on it. Until I get that right, is there any way we can save our site users the trouble of having to save their profile fields twice?

Please advice!

-Sib

Well, I would be happy to share the solution, but I don’t really think my way is all that elegant, there’s got to be a better way and I’m waiting for someone to suggest it to me.

Meanwhile, I am still using the old 2-theme model. I made some customizations in my bpmember theme to achieve this and put in some code in plugins/bp-custom.php as well.

Firstly, we have a custom profile field called ‘Role’. And we wanted to have separate Role-tabs (as you can see on our site) to list all members for THAT role.

To achieve this, I completely changed the bpmember/directories/members/index.php code and put in my ‘Role’ tab-structure there. Then, instead of making the members index file call the members-loop, I wrote a modified version of the members-loop, made it as a function and put it in my bp-custom.php. Now I make a call to this function (which is basically the members-loop) from my bpmember/directories/members/index.php page.

To give you an eg of how we display all companies under the Company tab:

In my bpmember/directories/members/index.php, under the code section for ‘Company’ tab I make a call like:

display_members_by_role(‘Company’);

In my bp-custom.php, I have written a function display_members_by_role($role) which is nothing but a slightly modified version of the members-loop.

Here, in the ‘while’ for members-loop, I check for the Role field for that user-id. For this eg, if the Role is ‘Company’, print that member in the company-listing, else not.

This is the code I have put in the members-loop which checks the custom profile field (which is this case is ‘Role’) and it’s value for that user-id:

...

...

<?php while ( bp_site_members() ) : bp_the_site_member(); ?>



<?php

global $site_members_template ;



$arr = BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byfieldname(array('Role'), $site_members_template->member->id) ;



if( $arr['Role'] == $role) //$role is the role value received by the function, in this eg - Company

{

//do whatever

}

<?php endwhile; ?>

....

....

Same logic is used for all other roles.

BTW, get_value_byfieldname() can return values for multiple fields too. In case you want to retrieve values of more than one profile fields, its easily possible. Say I want the ‘City’ custom field value too, then I would pass something like –

$arr = BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byfieldname(array(‘Role’,’City’)

and access the ‘City’ value using $arr[‘City’]

This function is pretty handy.

While I am able to print the members belonging to that corresponding role using this logic, what I can’t get into place is the pagination part. The pagination still takes into account ‘All’ members since the members-loop technically does retrieve all members.

All I have done is put a condition in order to just get the members for that role displayed. I was wondering if I should put in a separate pagination module, or if there is any other way of achieving this whole thing.

-Sib

Here’s a piece of code to replace the displayed nickname by name+firstname.

change $first_name_field_id and $name_field_id to match your fields.

/**

NAME + FIRSTNAME | START

*/

function user_name_firstname($fullname,$user_id=false) {

global $bp;

global $site_members_template;

$first_name_field_id=40;

$name_field_id=39;

if ( !$user_id ) $user_id=bp_get_the_site_member_user_id();

if ( function_exists(‘xprofile_install’) ) {

$first_name= xprofile_get_field_data($first_name_field_id, $user_id );

$name = xprofile_get_field_data($name_field_id, $user_id );

if ($name) {

$fullname = $name;

if ($first_name) $fullname.‘ ‘.$first_name;

}

wp_cache_set( ‘bp_user_fullname_’ . $user_id, $fullname, ‘bp’ );

}

return apply_filters( ‘user_name_firstname’, $fullname );

}

add_filter( ‘bp_get_the_site_member_name’, ‘user_name_firstname’,9);

/**

NAME + FIRSTNAME | END

*/

Now I have to find a way to order the directory member results by Name+Firstname… Any idea ?

Thanks for the quick help. It works fine with me.

Any quick idea, how to link it to the members search like usual profile fields do?

greetings from berlin

Christoph

Anybody have ideas on the post/question above????

*Bump.

Please anyone?