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BTW if I use bp_get_member_type( ‘123’ )

Strange that it would accept a string.
Please also try with an integer: bp_get_member_type( 123 )

hi @philippmuenchen,

here’s a gist published by @imath to sort the member directory by member_type.

That (working)example is based on this Codex article

Out of interest, can you try echo bp_get_member_type( bp_get_member_user_id() );

Perhaps there’s a weird character in the code you’ve written. That’s all I can think of?

Thanks for providing your code. Are you printing $type to screen? What do you get when you do echo $type;?

I set up two types (‘kw’ & ‘max’) so what i want to achieve is that the echo $type; prints ‘kw’ or ‘max’ depending on what the user is.

That’s great, but what does echo $type actually print to screen? For example:

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_directory_members_list' ); ?>

	<ul id="members-list" class="item-list" role="main">

	<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>

		<?php 
		$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
		$type = bp_get_member_type( $user_id );
                echo $type;
		?>

Or better still, what does var_dump( $type ); show you?

Thanks. And, just to check, are you running BP version 2.2?

@philippmuenchen @henrywright

Ok got it.

First i’ve just created this ticket and suggested a patch to solve the issue.

Now, you can still have it working by simply requesting a ‘not single’ member type using false as an extra argument eg :
bp_get_member_type( bp_get_member_user_id(), false );

So you’ll get the member type name, but not the singular name. If you want to have the singular name, here’s another gist :
https://gist.github.com/imath/3a5c5ade44eae997fdfd