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:
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<?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; ?>
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....
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
