A Few Things

Hey Paresh,

Okay I look forward to these features being included! Yes I tried echoing “bp_mutual_friend_total_count” in the members loop but it always shows mutual friends as “0” even if there are mutual friends.

While you are working on these features do you have any suggestions on how to unlink the mutual friends link from the recent activity link? I tried replacing the “bp_member_last_active” hook in the bp-mutual-friends-functions.php file (on line 115) but couldn’t get it to work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hey Paresh,

It seems that the new filter successfully unlinks the mutual friends link from latest activity. But echo bmf_get_total_mutual_friend_count() unfortunately doesn’t work correctly. It is strange, the mutual friends link correctly shows up on the first member in the loop but for all the rest of the members in the loop it displays total friends count instead of mutual friends count and the “Mutual Friends” text is missing.

Also, the snippet returns an redeclare error.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

Okay that makes sense now, thanks for the great support!

The error message says you cannot redeclare test_bp_directory_members_item on subsequent lines.

Hi Paresh,

Are you planning on either placing the mutual friends tab within the friends tab or creating the ability for the user to do so like we had discussed? If so, do you have any sort of a timeline on when to expect the update? It seems to make more sense to have the mutual friends tab as a child like the “Friendships” and “Requests” tabs under Friends.

Thanks!

Oh that’s to bad, that would have been an awesome feature!

Maybe instead of having a tab or child tab for mutual friends you could create the option to just show mutual friend count within the friends tab loop? I can do this myself pretty easily, but is there a certain filter or hook to use to remove the “Mutual Friends” tab?

Hey Paresh,

I have removed the mutual friends tab and found a way to include it in the subnav of “Friends” but cannot get the link to work correctly.

I am creating a new subnav item under friends using:

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
    			'name' => __('Mutual Friends', 'buddypress'),
    			'slug' => 'mutual-friends',
    			'parent_slug' => 'friends',
    			'parent_url' => trailingslashit( bp_displayed_user_domain() . 'friends' . '/' ),
    			'screen_function' => 'mutual_friends_function',
    			'position' => 20,
    			'show_for_displayed_user' => true,
				'user_has_access' => true
    	) );

Then I am hiding the subnav item on the user’s own profile so they only see it on other’s profiles using:

function remove_mutual_friends_subnav() {
  if (bp_is_my_profile()) {
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $bp->friends->slug, 'mutual-friends' );

The subnav item shows up correctly, but for some reason the linked URL created is always incorrect no matter what value is used for ‘parent_url’ and ‘slug’. Can you please try out the code and see if you can get the correct link? If we can figure out how to correctly link the URL then you will have the ability to place the mutual friends tab as a subnav tab under friends.

Paresh,

You also need to make a change to the Buddypress file which loads the nav bar. So in this case you need to open templates/legacy/bp/members/single/friends.php

And edit:

<?php if ( bp_is_my_profile() ) bp_get_options_nav(); ?>

To:

<?php bp_get_options_nav(); ?>

Then the above method should work to create and display the mutual friends sub tab but when it is clicked the link is broken.