You should be able to simply take the ‘get’ function and do an if( bp_get_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() ) to return a false/true result and wrap your markup in that
Thanks Hugo, can you show how to write it, sorry I’m a newbie
Use
https://gist.github.com/
to share your member-header.php file and put some notes in the area that you’re having trouble with.
Think we were hoping to see what you had tried or were having trouble with. In that snippet of code it actually shows the principle of checking whether a function returns true or false in the line <code>if ( bp_is_active( ‘activity’ ) ) :</code>
That line is saying if the activity component is active then render the code that follows it that ends just before the line ‘endif;’
In a similar way <code> bp_get_activity_latest_update(bp_displayed_user_id())</code> will only be true if there is a latest update.
To use the function as a check you need to wrap blocks of code in:
if():
endif;
Have a go if you still get stuck edit that gist code snippet so we can see your workings and advise.
N.B my earlier example function was incorrect you need to use :
<code>bp_get_activity_latest_update(bp_displayed_user_id())</code>
Thanks for your reply. I think I may be asking the wrong thing. I would like to hide everything in the divs if there isn’t any user latest activity posted, so I thought that if I used: if this, then show the divs, if not, then show nothing. But I dont know how to write it. Sorry for the confusion.
and that is exactly what is being explained – read through again. The if block – that is the start of the if to the endif – wraps any content you wish to hide; it says if this function has data do something – if the function has no data then the if( has_some_data() ) is the equivalent of false and thus anything inside the block will not be shown:
thus:
if ( bp_get_activity_latest_update ( bp_displayed_user_id() ) ) :
show me stuff
endif;
will only show if there is activity data so wrap that around anything you don’t want to show if no data returned.
Do give it a go best way of working things out is to experiment – on a local site copy naturally.
Untested, but try my amendment to your gist.
https://gist.github.com/4290064
btw – you really should have tried something like Hugo kept telling you. It’s okay to make mistakes and any effort you make will encourage others to help. Otherwise you risk falling into the do-this-for-me-for-free-and-do-it-now category of poster.
Hi, thanks shanebpx, I didn’t understand what Hugo was saying (I only know a very small amount of php), but now I can see from your post what he meant. Will try to figure it out. Thank you for all your help!
