Topic: Identify "/membername/" in Admin Bar?

Identify "/membername/" in Admin Bar?

geo407
Member

@geo407

14 years, 2 months ago

Hello! I’d like to add links in my wordpress page navigation using the “Page Links To” plugin to point to the corresponding links that are in the adminbar like http://siteurl.com/members/membername/

or http://siteurl.com/members/membername/profile/

My question is where in the BP code can I find what defines “membername” in the urls above and create a dynamic link based on the membername variable? I think that makes sense…lol… please let me know if you need any more info to answer & many thanks in advance for any help!

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r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 2 months ago

Check out /plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php

Specifically:

bp_get_member_permalink()

[EDIT]

You’re looking for user_login for the “membername” part.

Look at:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

geo407
Member

@geo407

14 years, 1 month ago

r-a-y, thanks so much for the reply. I think I’m sooo close to what I’m trying to accomplish, but I can’t seem to get the name to echo.. for ex. I’d like to create a link like http://siteurl.com/members/<?php echo user_login() ;?>/profile

Could you point me in the right direction as to how to do this?

Many Many Thanks!

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 1 month ago

If you just want to output a link with the logged in user’s name, use:

<?php bp_loggedinuser_link() ?>

geo407
Member

@geo407

14 years, 1 month ago

Thanks, that definitely works, but instead of the entire link I just need to echo the username

for ex. <?php bp_loggedinuser_link() ?> gets me the text “george” which is a link to http://mysite.com/members/george/

I’d like to get just the user name “george” with no link attached. Is this possible?

Thanks for taking the time to respond, much appreciated.

pcwriter
Participant

@pcwriter

14 years, 1 month ago

@geo407

Try this wherever you want the username to appear:

<?php bp_loggedin_user_username() ?>

Should work

smuda
Participant

@smuda

14 years, 1 month ago

@pcwriter i use

<?php echo $username; ?>

is your solution better?

pcwriter
Participant

@pcwriter

14 years, 1 month ago

@smuda

I honestly can’t say if it’s better or not ‘cuz I’m a php newbie. Someone more knowledgeable than I would have to answer that question.

What I can say though is that it works just fine.

Sorry I can’t be of more help than that…