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  • Plugin Author Boone Gorges

    (@boonebgorges)

    Hi Amanda. Sadly, it’s not easy to do this. The plugin only detects bracketed terms and then links them to a search matching those terms. But that search is based only on a URL parameter and is a text search against text fields. The bracketed terms are not structured in any way that makes them easy to query, across users, in one fell swoop.

    There’s a longstanding BuddyPress ticket for building a taxonomy-powered backend for BP profile fields https://buddypress.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/4796. If this is ever done, it’ll make it possible to integrate the square-bracket system of this plugin with the profile taxonomy – so that putting [foo] in brackets will assign you the tag [foo]. At that point, it’ll be possible to create tag clouds.

    Thread Starter amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    Forgot I posted this as a feature request! Funny you mention this — a developer here said the same thing about the difficulty, but he hacked together a shortcode that produces the desired result. See https://vadhconsortium.org/interests

    I haven’t looked at the code, but I asked him just a couple of days ago to look into abstracting it enough so that it could be contributed to CBOX (couldn’t find a GitHub repo for the plugin; I think it predates GH!). Stay tuned. I’ll send him this thread.

    @amandafrench, did you ever get this code?

    Thread Starter amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    Yes and no — sadly, said talented developer has left us, so he never did abstract the code for use in CBOX. ?? What a difference a month makes! I’ll see if I can dig it up, though.

    Sweet! Thanks! Would love this feature.

    Thread Starter amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    Sorry it has taken me so long to do this, but I finally dug up the login info and took a look. As best I can tell, this was done as a functions.php file in a child theme. The child theme has the necessary style.css with the header, but that’s the only other file. The functions.php in the child theme creates a ‘taglist’ shortcode, as follows:

    <?php
    
    //[filters]
    function clean_taglist($field_value){
    	preg_match_all('/\[.*?\]/',$field_value, $matches);
    	$tags = '';
    	foreach($matches as $match_array) {
    		foreach($match_array as $match_item){
    			$tags = $tags . trim($match_item) . ',';
    		}
    	}
    	$tagarray = explode(',', $tags);
    	natcasesort($tagarray);
    	$tags = implode('; ', array_filter(array_iunique($tagarray)));
    
    	$tags = cpfb_add_brackets($tags);
    	$tags = cpfb_add_social_networking_links($tags);
    	$tags = cpfb_unlink_fields($tags);
    	return $tags;
    }
    
    //[Array Unique Case Insensitive]
    function array_iunique($array) {
        return array_intersect_key(
            $array,
            array_unique(array_map("StrToLower",$array))
        );
    }
    
    //[taglist field="field-name"]
    function taglist_func( $atts ){
    	$attributes = shortcode_atts( array(
            'field' => null,
            'brackets' => 'false'
        ), $atts );
    
    	// If no field defined, return error.
        if($attributes['field'] == null){
        	return "Missing required attribute: 'field'.";
        }
    
    	$allusers = get_users();
    	$taglist = '';
    
    	//For fields requiring brackets (In this install, only one field)
    	if($attributes['brackets'] == 'true'){
    		foreach ($allusers as $user) {
    			$args = array(
    			    'field'     => $attributes['field'],
    			    'user_id'   => $user->ID
    			);
    			$taglist = $taglist . bp_get_profile_field_data($args);
    		}
    		$taglist = clean_taglist($taglist);
    	}else{
    	//For fields without brackets (all other fields)
    		foreach ($allusers as $user) {
    			$args = array(
    			    'field'     => $attributes['field'],
    			    'user_id'   => $user->ID
    			);
    			$taglist = $taglist . bp_get_profile_field_data($args) . ';';
    		}
    		$tagarray = explode(';', $taglist);
    		$tagarray = array_filter(array_iunique($tagarray));
    		natcasesort($tagarray);
    		foreach($tagarray as $key => $org){
    			$tagarray[$key] = trim(xprofile_filter_link_profile_data($org));
    		}
    		$taglist = implode('; ', $tagarray);
    	}
    
    	return $taglist;
    }
    add_shortcode( 'taglist', 'taglist_func' );

    Hi Amanda, thank you for sharing the code!

    Thread Starter amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    You are welcome, @rmiarka! All credit to Chris Klein of https://www.d13development.com/

    Hi Amanda!

    Somehow this script does not work anymore. It seems that
    $tagarray[$key] = trim(xprofile_filter_link_profile_data($org));
    is breaking the output. Have you noticed any problems too?

    Cheers,
    Ralph

    Thread Starter amandafrench

    (@amandafrench)

    Still works for us for the existing users, though admittedly we haven’t had any new users (the site’s not really being used). We are running Wp 4.5.2.

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