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Anyone have custom css for this filtering? With a lot of options the page gets very long, when most can be placed along-side each other!

Andrea,
Is there a way to limit checkbox options in the search form to those that will return at least one member? That way people using the search will not get “none found” when choosing checkbox options.

Thank you so much.

Glenn

@andrea
I got this to work!
I copied the bp_get_the_profile_field_options() function that is in bp_xprofiles_templates.php into a new function that I called bp_get_the_profile_field_options_only_used(). A few lines from the top of that function, $objects = $field->get_children();. The $objects variable is what determines what is displayed on the searchform. It is an array of objects containing the name of the checklist and other profile fields.

I created an array of all of the names of the checkboxes that members have checked for their profiles.

$admins = get_users(‘role=administrator&fields=ID’);
$twamembers = get_users(‘role=s2member_level1&fields=ID’);
$members = array_merge($admins, $twamembers); //gets all member ids that are admins or twa members
foreach($members as &$member){
//get data from checkbox fields for each member redefining $members as the data in a multidimensional array
$member = bp_unserialize_profile_field( xprofile_get_field_data(bp_get_the_profile_field_name(), $member));
}
//turns multidimensional array into a single-dimensional array of all the data
$output = array();
// Push all $val onto $output.
array_walk_recursive($members, create_function(‘$val, $key, $obj’, ‘array_push($obj, $val);’), &$output);
$members = array_unique($output); //get rid of duplicates

Then I modified $objects to delete any objects whose name is not in the array above.

foreach($options as $key => $option1){
if(!in_array($option1->name, $members, false)){
unset($options[$key]);
}
}
$options = array_values($options);

Now I just called the modified function in bps_searchform.php.

This seems to be working for me so far. This produces a shortened checklist that will always returns at least 1 member in the search.

Hopefully this shortens your to-do list.

Thanks for the great plug-in,
Glenn

@Glenn
Oops,
In my previous explanation, I talked about changing the $objects variable when it is actually the $options variable.

@Jason
Jason,
I just got this working. The css is pretty easy, but the template modification was a little tricky.
The problem is that all of the checkbox items have label tags instead of li tags. So you have to go into the template and add these tags. The only problem is that the checkbox items are all called by a function that also renders the html.

So you have to go to the function bp_get_the_profile_field_options() located in plugins/buddypress/xprofile/xprofile_template.php and modify it by adding the following code:

$html .= ”;

$html .= apply_filters( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_options_checkbox’, ‘id . ‘[]” id=”field_’ . $options[$k]->id . ‘_’ . $k . ‘” value=”‘ . esc_attr( stripslashes( $options[$k]->name ) ) . ‘”> ‘ . esc_attr( stripslashes( $options[$k]->name ) ) . ”, $options[$k], $field->id, $selected, $k);

$html .= ”;

This goes at the very end of the “case ‘checkbox’:” section (line 562 on my editor).
You’ll note that I added li tags in two places. For some reason, the li tags in the block of code did not show up in the search form but did in other places. It probably has something to do with that filter.

I would recommend moving this function to your functions.php in your child theme so your work is not destroyed next time buddypress is updated.

Then go to the plugins/bp_profile_search/bps_searchform.php and add ul tag around the function above. It is on line 111 in my editor. Here is the code:

The name of the function is different in the example above because I changed the name of that function for another issue. Yours will still be called bp_the_profile_field_options().

The above will list the checkboxes as an unordered list with the class “checkbox.”

I assume you would do the exact same thing for radio buttons. Those codes are in the same files.

Now insert the following into your style.css:
.label{
font-size:14px;
font-weight: bold;
display: block;
}
div.checkbox{
position:relative;
display:block;
width: 100%;
height: auto;

}
.clear { clear: both; }

ul.checkbox{
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
}
ul.checkbox li{
text-align: left;
float: left;
list-style: none;
height: 30px;
width: 195px;
}
div.field-wrapper ul {
list-style-type: none;
}

You may have to play with it a little to fit with your theme, but it should be close.

If you want to create columns for checklists in other places where there are checkboxes for profile fields, you will need to go into those templates and just add ul class=”checkbox” around that same function.

Andrea, if you want to add the above change to the new function you will have to create for this patch

andrea :
Hi Glenn,
I’ll add your patch to BP Profile Search in the next release. Thank you very much!

then it will allow people to style the checkboxes more easily.

Good luck!
Glenn

I have installed the plugin and added the the php code to the members index.php as stated. When I view the page I don’t see any search options. What am I missing?

@andrea Hi Andrea, I have made all of the necessary changes to the settings, selected the search fields but it still doesn’t appear.

Here is my index.php in the directory listed in the instructions.

<a href="”><?php printf( __( 'All Members %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_member_count() ); ?>

<a href="”><?php printf( __( 'My Friends %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_friend_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ); ?>

@Jason

Hello Jason,

I am looking to do the exact same thing here, did you figure out how to do this? If so, what changes were made?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

First off all, thank you for this plugin. I found exactly what I want to do with it.

I found an issue with wordpress 3.2.1 and buddypress 1.5.1.

By default in buddypress, the age extented profile field is a datebox which store a date in mysql date format (YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS) in mysql database.

The problem is that the search by range date given by BP profile search do a querie with timestamp…

I have made some change wich can be include in the next release if someone else have the same issue :

case ‘datebox’:
if ($id != $bps_options['agerange']) continue;

$time = time ();
$day = date (“j”, $time);
$month = date (“n”, $time);
$year = date (“Y”, $time);
$from1 = $year – $value;
$to1 = $year – $to -1;
$min = “$to1-$month-$day”;
$max = “$from1-$month-$day”;

$sql = “SELECT user_id from {$bp->profile->table_name_data}”;
$sql .= ” WHERE field_id = $id AND value >= ‘$min’ AND value <= '$max'";
break;
}

Thanks

@Julien
I tried to implement your changes and got:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /wp-content/plugins/bp-profile-search/bps-functions.php on line 139

The Line 139 it is complaining about is “$from1 = $year – $value;”

@andrea

Thanks. Managed to change all the ‘ ” and –
It works now!

Hi guys,

Having a big issue with this plugin now that required field behaviour in BP has changed.

No idea why BP changed this behaviour but when you set a field to required that offers a drop down to select from, the first option in the dropdown is selected as default.

The fields no longer has a ——— option at the top, which would ommit it from a search, it MAKES YOU select an answer from the dropdown.

This means that the first option is ALWAYS selected on the search form, which means if you have multiple required fields, a search is impossible as the first option in ALL fields is selected by default.

This way you can’t search by just one field, as all have to be selected.

I know this sounds confusing, but if you set up some profile field dropdowns and make them required you’ll see instantly what I mean.

Such a shame, as BP’s behaviour makes this plugin unusable when you have required fields.

Anything that could be done?

Thanks so much for your time!