alialib

Hi Detective,

OK, that sounds simple enough. However, I’m not great at PHP and MySQL. I’ve never written a plugin before, and don’t really speak the lingo (am learning!). Below is my first attempt. Firstly though, this is what I’ve now got in my template-tags.php file:

add_action('init', 'my_aleph_views', 100);

function my_aleph_views() {
    aleph_register_user_view('Business', 'Business Users', 'wp_user_level=administrator');
}

The new plugin looks like this, and doesn’t work!

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: CIMYUSERS
Plugin URI: http://www.aliblackwell.com
Description: Joins the CIMY and WordPress User Fields
Version: 0.1
Author: Ali Blackwell + Detective
Author URI: http://www.aliblackwell.com
*/
SELECT *
FROM wp_user
JOIN wp_cimy_uef_fields
ON wp_user.id=wp_cimy_uef_fields.id
?>

When I activate the plugin it says:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/totallyt/public_html/shoreditchradio.co.uk/site/wp-content/plugins/cimyusers.php on line 11

I’ve tried different syntax, but I can’t get it working. Any ideas? I appreciate you’re probably very busy, and you’ve already been amazing producing this wonderful plugin, but I’d be immensely grateful of your help!

Many thanks,

Ali

Hello everybody,

Detective, your magnifying glass and wise brain please! I am trying to configure a search page which displays users based on their CIMY meta data. In the FAQ on the plugin homepage it says:

After the plugin is loaded, you can add new lists/views using a special function called aleph_register_view:

dd_action('init', 'my_aleph_views', 100);

function my_aleph_views() {
    aleph_register_user_view('view_slug', 'My User List', 'user_key=some_meta_key');
}

…The third parameter is the “user query”, in this case, we are querying for users that have a custom user_meta of key some_meta_key.

I’ve tried everything to make it reference the CIMY Extra Field (which is called “role”) but can’t work it out. Any ideas? Your help would be massively appreciated; I’m building a radio station website with DJ profiles… it should be cool! But there’s also local business profiles, so I’d like to separate them into two user lists using a search query. Any ideas?

So far I’ve got:

function my_aleph_views() {
    aleph_register_user_view('business', 'Business Users', 'user_cimy_field_role2=$role2');
}

in my template-tags file. It correctly outputs a search page, and a heading called “Business Users” in the widget, but I can’t for the life of me get the third bit working.

Many thanks indeed,

Ali