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Hi everyone,

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I’m attempting to create a function that auto accepts friend request in Buddy Press, the function is as follows;

`
function bp_auto_accept_friend_request( $friendship_id, $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id ) {

friends_add_friend(
$friendship_initiator_id,
$friendship_friend_id,
$force_accept = true
);

friends_accept_friendship( $friendship_id );
}

add_action(‘friends_friendship_requested’, ‘bp_auto_accept_friend_request’, 200, 3);
`

The above function works by creating an entry in the wp_bp_friends table with a value of 1 for the is_confirmed column, however the default friendship request action is still being executed which adds an additional entry to the table saying unconfirmed.

`
id initiator_user_id friend_user_id is_confirmed is_limited
2 1 3 1 0
3 1 3 0 0
`

So we have both a confirmed and unconfirmed entry for the same friendship. This means that on the user profile page it will appear as if you have both a confirmed friend and have a friend request from the same person.

The above function was adapted for simplicity from;

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/auto-accept-friend-requests

There’s also this accepted answer from WPSE here;

How to auto-accept a friend-request in buddypress based on user meta

…which when adapted to my use case produced the same results described.

Any thoughts on how to prevent the default action? So far I can’t unhook the request…

Note: Currently using WordPress 3.5 and BuddyPress 1.6.4