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Hello,
I would like to ask how can I manage the following situation:
Let’s say I allow users to input custom string while they create a group. This may be a country. So it is saved to groupmeta database as [ group-country : Russia ]. Then I would like to make a custom groups loop on a specific page where I display only groups that have group-country == Russia since users wouldn’t like to see groups from other countries as they don’t interest them.

I was searching through internet for solution and managed to accomplish my task with this:
• in functions.php

`function include_groups_by_meta($theMetaValue, $theMetaField) {
$groupArray = array();
if (bp_has_groups()) :
while (bp_groups()) : bp_the_group();
$theFieldValue = groups_get_groupmeta( bp_get_group_id(), $theMetaField );
if ($theFieldValue==$theMetaValue) {
array_push($groupArray,bp_get_group_id());
}
endwhile;
endif;

$theIncludeString=implode(“,”,$groupArray);
return $theIncludeString;
}`

• and in my loop

`$args = array(
‘type’ => ‘random’,
‘max’ => 3,
‘include’ => include_groups_by_meta(‘Russia’, ‘group-country’)
);
if ( bp_has_groups ( $args ) ): ?>`

However, first of all, what I really do are two loops which could be overloading, and secondly when there is no group in particular country my loop loops through all of the possible groups. Is there some cleaner way to accomplish my task?

Thanks in advance.