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His guys. I guess it doesn’t do this already. If you are going to write a plugin, that is great. Is it also possible to learn the code (I wm my site so I am able to reduce plugins, even though I think the plugin will be very popular).

If you want to avoid “group” and illegal characters, you could maybe use what you said there: “@allfriends” or “@allgroup” or “@allfriendsingroup” (as different functions).

Or, if you had multiple groups and wanted to message one from your own stream, maybe @allgroup’groupname’

There is limited spam potential, but if groups have mods mods can ban / restrict membership. And the plugin would only be used by those who thought the benefits outweighed.

If anyone knows how, maybe you could point me towards the general code scheme for this and I can work on it as well. Might help in the future when something else needs improving.

Thanks,
JM

Thank you for the reply. I apologize for not using the correct format for a support question. I will know better for next time.

Your suggestion that I look into my active plugins found the problem. I always use “Stop Spammers Spam Control” but I guess the normal settings I use for it are causing the problem. When I deactivate it the problem goes away. I’ll work on tweaking it’s settings.

Thank you for your help!

For example, I have tried the following code and tried to call it onClick but it either doesn’t register or throws an error:

function add_featured_activity(){

GLOBAL $wpdb;
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );

$button_action = "<a href='".site_url()."/members/".$user_info->user_login."'></a>";

// arguments to pass to the bp_activity_add() function
$args = array(
'action'            => $button_action,                     // The activity action - e.g. "Jon Doe posted an update"
'component'         => 'profile',                  // The name/ID of the component e.g. groups, profile, mycomponent
'type'              => 'activity_update',                  // The activity type e.g. activity_update, profile_updated
'user_id'           => $user_id,  // Optional: The user to record the activity for, can be false if this activity is not for a user.
'item_id'           => $user_id,                  // Optional: The ID of the specific item being recorded, e.g. a blog_id
'recorded_time'     => bp_core_current_time(), // The GMT time that this activity was recorded
'hide_sitewide'     => 0,                  // Should this be hidden on the sitewide activity stream?
'is_spam'           => 0,                  // Is this activity item to be marked as spam?
);

$add_activity = bp_activity_add($args);

// Update the members's last activity
update_last_activity( $user_id );

return true;
}  
add_action('bp_activity_add', 'add_featured_activity' );

@danbp:

I have the buttons displaying fine in entry.php..thanks for that info however.
To answer your questions milestones and momentum buttons really only need to act like the “spam” button, which when clicked, writes a “1” to the is_spam row in bp_activity table. So, I’ve created is_momentum and is_milestone rows in my db, and just need the logic on how I can get those buttons we have created to act like the “spam” button EXCEPT writing to a new row in table. ANd how to name the “php bp_activity_unfavorite_link” part of the button. That’s all.

Hope that’s more clear now.

Chris

Here’s what I have done so far:

/activity/entry.php

<!-- BEGIN Custom Commenting Buttons -->

				<a href="<?php bp_activity_unfavorite_link(); ?>" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Is Milestone?', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Is Milestone?', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
				<a href="<?php bp_activity_unfavorite_link(); ?>" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action" title="<?php esc_attr_e( ' Is Momentum Point?', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Is Momentum Point?', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>

<!-- END Custom Commenting Buttons -->

(Just grabbed the button code for “unfavorite/favorite”, so I could have placeholders for my 2 custom buttons)

/bp-custom.php
(code taken from bp-activity-functions.php, well the is_spam piece).

// Mark each as milestone
	foreach ( (array) $activities['activities'] as $activity ) {

		// Create an activity object
		$activity_obj = new BP_Activity_Activity;
		foreach ( $activity as $k => $v ) {
			$activity_obj->$k = $v;
		}

		// Mark as milestone
		bp_activity_mark_as_milestone( $activity_obj );

		// Tidy up
		unset( $activity_obj );
	}

	// Mark all of this user's activities as milestone
	$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$bp->activity->table_name} SET is_milestone = 1 WHERE user_id = %d", $user_id ) );
	
		// Mark each as momentum point
	foreach ( (array) $activities['activities'] as $activity ) {

		// Create an activity object
		$activity_obj = new BP_Activity_Activity;
		foreach ( $activity as $k => $v ) {
			$activity_obj->$k = $v;
		}

		// Mark as momentum point
		bp_activity_mark_as_momentum( $activity_obj );

		// Tidy up
		unset( $activity_obj );
	}

	// Mark all of this user's activities as momentum point
	$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$bp->activity->table_name} SET is_momentum_point = 1 WHERE user_id = %d", $user_id ) );

Hope this helps make sense of things somewhat.

Chris

@danbp:

Here’s what I have done so far:

/activity/entry.php

<!-- BEGIN Custom Commenting Buttons -->

				<a href="<?php bp_activity_unfavorite_link(); ?>" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Is Milestone?', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Is Milestone?', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
				<a href="<?php bp_activity_unfavorite_link(); ?>" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action" title="<?php esc_attr_e( ' Is Momentum Point?', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Is Momentum Point?', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>

<!-- END Custom Commenting Buttons -->

(Just grabbed the button code for “unfavorite/favorite”, so I could have placeholders for my 2 custom buttons)

/bp-custom.php
(code taken from bp-activity-functions.php, well the is_spam piece).

// Mark each as milestone
	foreach ( (array) $activities['activities'] as $activity ) {

		// Create an activity object
		$activity_obj = new BP_Activity_Activity;
		foreach ( $activity as $k => $v ) {
			$activity_obj->$k = $v;
		}

		// Mark as milestone
		bp_activity_mark_as_milestone( $activity_obj );

		// Tidy up
		unset( $activity_obj );
	}

	// Mark all of this user's activities as milestone
	$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$bp->activity->table_name} SET is_milestone = 1 WHERE user_id = %d", $user_id ) );
	
		// Mark each as momentum point
	foreach ( (array) $activities['activities'] as $activity ) {

		// Create an activity object
		$activity_obj = new BP_Activity_Activity;
		foreach ( $activity as $k => $v ) {
			$activity_obj->$k = $v;
		}

		// Mark as momentum point
		bp_activity_mark_as_momentum( $activity_obj );

		// Tidy up
		unset( $activity_obj );
	}

	// Mark all of this user's activities as momentum point
	$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$bp->activity->table_name} SET is_momentum_point = 1 WHERE user_id = %d", $user_id ) );

Hope this helps make sense of things somewhat.

Chris

@henrywright…javascript *is enabled yes.
What I’m wanting to do, is duplicate those buttons with a new function close to how is_spam functions where it writes a “1” to a row in a db table. I can add the buttons in /activity/entry.php etc..but just need to know how exactly/where to copy the is_spam functionality and where to add to fire off a “replica”. if that makes sense.

So, is that how the spam or favorite/un favorite buttons work?

And how about the functions?

Chris