Topic: problem in display order – bp_has_member

problem in display order – bp_has_member

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

12 years, 4 months ago

Hello,

I’m having trouble showing the members of my social network through bp_has_members.

I need to display them in a specific order. For this I created a function that takes data from a table outside and BuddyPress stores ids of members and other information (called table “filter”).

This function returns the ids separated by comma.
So I use the optional attribute “include” inside the loop.

The explanation is a little complex, but I will show in practice. Looks like this:
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id. ‘& per_page = 30’)):

Where, example, $id = ‘8, 9,3,2 ‘;

But the BuddyPress rearranges the display order of the members this way:
2,3,8,9

I need it to display the members in order that I sent:
8,9,3,2

Can anyone help me solve this? Thank you.

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

12 years, 4 months ago

Afaik, bp_has_members will default to sorting the returned array by ‘last_active’, thereby wiping out the order of your $id string.

Using populate_extras might stop that:

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id. ‘& per_page = 30& populate_extras=false’)):
`

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

12 years, 4 months ago

BuddyPress doesn’t use that parameter for any sort of ordering. It’s just an array of IDs to be included in the query. The ‘type’ parameter controls this; see bp_core_get_users().

I think you would have to re-order the results of the query after it is made.

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

12 years, 4 months ago

The returned users are always sorted by the ‘type’.
I’ve never tried setting ‘type’ to null …?

It would be great to have a ‘type = unsorted’ (enhancement ?)
I’ve had tasks where that would be very handy.

>I think you would have to re-order the results of the query after it is made.
That’s tough to do – and still use the members-loop and pagination.

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

12 years, 4 months ago

populate_extras not work!

In which file to find the function bp_core_get_users()?

Diego Mariano
Member

@diego-mariano

12 years, 4 months ago

I thought about doing something like:

for($x=0;$x<30;$x++)

q but I think the performance will be impaired.
What do you think?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

12 years, 4 months ago

Probably won’t work, but try these and let us know:

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id . ‘&per_page = 30&type=NULL’)):
`

`
if (bp_has_members (‘include =’. $ id . ‘&per_page = 30&type=dummy’)):
`

haydenjameslee
Participant

@haydenjameslee

10 years, 7 months ago

I have the same problem as this post and have tried your solutions with no luck shanebp. Any further ideas?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

10 years, 7 months ago

Yes, BP_User_Query now supports preserving the order the ‘user_ids’ parameter.

So if you’re using a function to collect member ids, take a look at

BP_User_Query

Note the last entry.