Hello….. this little hack is probably very simple, or hard… but how do you put the forum poster’s user role under their avatar in a specific group?

For example…. I have a group with 2 admins. So when they post in forums for that group, under their avatar is says “Administrator”

And regular members just say “members” and Mods say “moderator”

Thanks!

p.s, i could hire someone to write this hack

[@bigjimmysisco Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

+1

[@gunju2221 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I would have to give this a +1! Don’t you just love hacks?

it would probably require some heavy data collecting if you want it to be just that specific group. Especially if you have a-lot of mods or admins

[@bigjimmysisco Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Hacks??? are we breaking rules?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

Check out /buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-templatetags.php.

In particular, here are the conditional functions you’re looking for:

`bp_group_is_admin(); // will return true if the user is a group admin

bp_group_is_mod(); // will return true if the user is a group mod`

Use in a conditional statement and you’re good to go!

eg.

`if ( bp_group_is_mod() ) echo ‘Group Moderator’;`

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks r-a-y. So I stick the second code where I want the text to appear right?

The first code I am totally lost.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

Yeah, the second code; I was just trying to explain where you can find useful functions for groups

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

Try it!

Be sure to wrap it around php tags though.

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[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@r-a-y, I put the second code below the

“

but nothing appears..

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

Sorry about that! I thought it would work. Looks like BP is missing some template tags for this.

This will work.

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`
function bp_topic_poster_is_admin() {
global $topic_template;
return BP_Groups_Member::check_is_admin( $topic_template->post->poster_id, bp_get_the_topic_object_id() );
}

function bp_topic_poster_is_mod() {
global $topic_template;
return BP_Groups_Member::check_is_mod( $topic_template->post->poster_id, bp_get_the_topic_object_id() );
}`

Then use this in your template:

`if ( function_exists( ‘bp_topic_poster_is_mod’ ) ) :
if ( bp_topic_poster_is_mod() ) echo ‘Group Moderator’;
endif;`

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Awesome! now if I could just style it enough to show up under the avatar…

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@r-a-y, I found a little incompatibility with your code, and with The “bp unread posts” plugin, it seems that this code is making it not to appear

`function bp_unread_posts_record_activity() {
global $bp;
global $forum_template;
if ( bp_has_forum_topic_posts() ) $bb_this_thread = $forum_template->topic->topic_id;
if (empty($bb_this_thread)) {
return $null;
}
$bbtype = ‘last_visits_user_’;
$bbuser = $bp->loggedin_user->id;
$bb_this_visit_time = strtotime($forum_template->topic->topic_time);
$bb_last_visit = bb_get_topicmeta($bb_this_thread, $bbtype . $bbuser);
if($bb_last_visit != $bb_this_visit_time) {
bb_update_topicmeta($bb_this_thread, $bbtype . $bbuser, $bb_this_visit_time);
}
}`

what is making it not appear?

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Im thinking it is this line: `if ( bp_has_forum_topic_posts() ) $bb_this_thread = $forum_template->topic->topic_id;`

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

any ideas ray?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 6 months ago]

Not sure. I haven’t used the BP Unread Posts plugin before, but if that plugin modifies the $topic_template global, then it will probably interfere with the code.

[@vegasparty607 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

is there a way around it? I would love both

[@peeld Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

This code pretty much does exactly what I want, which is to display the user’s role/level in forums. I got it to work for Admin and Mod, but I’m a code idiot so I’m not sure how to get it to work with other levels? I’m using s2Member so I have levels that are written to BP/WP users like Working Student, Auditing Student, Free Subscriber, etc.

Tips?

TIA,
Daisy

[@peeld Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

Bump

[@jordash Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

I can’t get this to work, I added those functions to the functions.php file and put in the if statement, but it doesn’t detect whether they are a moderator or not.

Any idea whats up?

[@jordash Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

Nvm got it working.