[Resolved] php conditionals based on group visibility/type?
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Hi,
I’m an UBER NOOB to php, and am trying to do something like this:
`<?php if (bp_this_group_is_public_true_or_false() ) {
some facebook sharing buttons
} ?>`The goal is to put FB share buttons into the replies within PUBLIC groups’ topics, but not private.
I’ve looked into
`bp_group_is_public()
bp_get_group_public_status()
bp_get_group_is_public()`
and others, but none seem to be able to be used in a conditional. They tend to just print the status out onto the page even when I’ve got them nested in the conditional’s ( )’s.Literally my first PHP project, working hard to understand. Thanks for patience.
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they appear unused and not working.
right. One way they’re not working is that they don’t even report the right info. I don’t recall which it was, but I ran one of those functions, and it was printing Private in a public group.
I’m not sure what you mean “are you sure you’ve setup your $group variable correctly?”. In my thinking, BuddyPress sets it up, not me; I’m just trying to reference it. I copied that $group->status setup out of the definition for bp_get_group_type() in bp-groups-template.php.
I’ll give a whirl to the `bp_get_group_type()`, since that demonstrably at least produces the correct group visibility level; my trick will be to use its output in a conditional.
Ok, so `bp_group_type` is what prints text to the page, `bp_get_group_type` seems to summon the text as a returned value (which bp_group_type() uses for its printing)
SUCCESS!
`<?php if (bp_get_group_type()== "Public Group")
print “foo”
?>
<?php if (bp_get_group_type()== "Private Group")
print “bar”
?>`On a private group, I saw foo outputted and no bar. So it works.
It feels less than elegant. It would be more elegant to just use the variables that bp_get_group_type() calls. But for now, it works.
Thanks, @RogerCoathup, for the guidance
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