BuddyPress.org

Hi there,

I’m developing an intranet site for a client – I’m (very) new to the world of PHP, so I’m struggling with getting things customised with the buddypress part of the site. I’m after some pointers for hiding a notifications/new messages count if it’s 0. I’ve managed to get these showing in my user menu using the following code:

<?php
// hacks and mods will go here

function my_counter_nav_menu($menu) {  

$notif_url = bp_core_get_user_domain(bp_loggedin_user_id()) .'notifications/';
$friends_url = bp_core_get_user_domain(bp_loggedin_user_id()) .'friends/'; 
$msg_url = bp_core_get_user_domain(bp_loggedin_user_id()) .'messages/';    
      
    if (!is_user_logged_in())
        return $menu;
    else
        $notif = '

<li class="notify"><a href=" ' .$friends_url. ' ">Connections <div class="friendnumber topnavcount">'.friends_get_friend_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .'</div></a></li>
<li class="notify"><a href=" ' .$notif_url. ' ">Notifications <div class="notifynumber topnavcount">'. bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ).'</div></a></li>
<li class="notify"><a href=" ' .$msg_url. ' ">Messages <div class="messagenumber topnavcount">'.bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .'</div></a></li>

';
				
    $menu = $menu . $notif;
    return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_counter_nav_menu' );

?>

My first issue was that these new menu items were showing up on both the main nav and the user menu of the site, but I’ve fixed that by applying the classes shown and hiding them using CSS (something I’m much more familiar with!)

What I need is someone kind to spell out exactly what I need to do to hide the counts for notifications and unread messages above if they’re 0. The friends bit I’m not so worried about as I may either change how that works or drop it entirely (its a corporate client). I’ve already tried a number of javascript options to remove the div if the content is 0… but guess what, I’m as great at javascript as I am at PHP!

Thanking everyone here in advance – it was only by searching these forums that I was able to get this far, so I appreciate all the effort everyone goes to to help people like me out!

John