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Display Name in Group Member Search — is there a functions.php equiv. in admin?


  • evanvolgas
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    @evanvolgas

    I’ve searched for the past several hours and couldn’t find an answer to this… if someone already answered this, I apologize for repeating.

    I have a client who is developing a BP member area for nonprofit partners around the world. On the groups administration screen ( Dashboard –> Groups –> Edit –> Add new members ), they would like to change the display from “User name” and “user email” to “Display name” and “user email.”

    On line 946 of bp-groups-admin (content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-admin) I found

    /**
    * AJAX handler for group member autocomplete requests
    *
    * @since BuddyPress (1.7)
    */
    function bp_groups_admin_autocomplete_handler() {

    // Bail if user user shouldn’t be here, or is a large network
    if ( ! current_user_can( ‘bp_moderate’ ) || ( is_multisite() && wp_is_large_network( ‘users’ ) ) )
    wp_die( -1 );

    $return = array();

    // Exclude current group members
    $group_id = isset( $_GET[‘group_id’] ) ? wp_parse_id_list( $_GET[‘group_id’] ) : array();
    $group_member_query = new BP_Group_Member_Query( array(
    ‘group_id’ => $group_id,
    ‘per_page’ => 0, // show all
    ‘group_role’ => array( ‘member’, ‘mod’, ‘admin’, ),
    ‘populate_extras’ => false,
    ‘count_total’ => false,
    ) );

    $group_members = ! empty( $group_member_query->results ) ? wp_list_pluck( $group_member_query->results, ‘ID’ ) : array();

    $terms = isset( $_GET[‘term’] ) ? $_GET[‘term’] : ”;
    $users = get_users( array(
    ‘blog_id’ => false,
    ‘search’ => ‘*’ . $terms . ‘*’,
    ‘exclude’ => $group_members,
    ‘search_columns’ => array( ‘user_login’, ‘user_nicename’, ‘user_email’, ‘display_name’ ),
    ‘number’ => 10
    ) );

    foreach ( (array) $users as $user ) {
    $return[] = array(
    /* translators: 1: user_login, 2: user_email */
    ‘label’ => sprintf( __( ‘%1$s (%2$s)’ ), $user->user_login, $user->user_email ),
    ‘value’ => $user->user_login,
    );
    }

    On that very last “foreach” I think I want to change ‘label’ => sprintf( __( ‘%1$s (%2$s)’ ), $user->user_login, $user->user_email ) to reference display_name instead of email

    Can anyone confirm if this is true? Also, is there a template hierarchy that would allow me to load a modified php script in place of this one, or perhaps something like a child theme functions.php where I could unhook that function and attach my modified one?

    I apologize if this is an obvious thing… spent several hours and could not find an answer. Need some help from folks who know more about BP than I do. I appreciate your time in advance. For reals.

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  • aces
    Participant

    @aces

    oops, misread the question….


    evanvolgas
    Participant

    @evanvolgas

    Hey, your answer turned me onto bp-custom though and it was helpful to read what you’d originally shared too. WordPress to BuddyPress… a bit different, but very cool stuff.

    For those interested, the problem was that the nonprofit had several usernames/emails identical to each other. The default “add new user” search in the groups admin area was for user_name and user_email… not helpful in this client’s case. aces responded with https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ which, while not the right solution for this specific problem, turned me onto this
    https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/, which is (or at least it works… is there ever the one right solution? not sure.”

    In any case, I created a bp-custom.php file and unhooked the original search function

    remove_action( ‘wp_ajax_bp_group_admin_member_autocomplete’, ‘bp_groups_admin_autocomplete_handler’ );

    Then I changed the autocomplete handler to show display_name and added the action back in

    add_action( ‘wp_ajax_bp_group_admin_member_autocomplete’, ‘mbb_groups_admin_autocomplete_handler’ );

    This one is solved. Turned out it was simple after all. @aces, thanks for sharing what you did. I read over the link you shared and saw the link to bp-custom, which somehow I didn’t find when I was looking into this earlier. I appreciate your help and it looks like the problem is solved 🙂

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