Results Page retrieve displayed members’ IDs

Hi y2gabs,

Why do you need the user IDs of the search results? I’m asking because probably there is a simpler way to achieve what you need.

Thank you sir for your reply here! I’m using a messaging plugin (as an alternative to the buddypress msg functionality) that opens a new message window and includes the recipients in the “To” field who’s user IDs are included in the new message url. So it would look like this:
https://mydomain.com/blahblah/new message&uid=1,5,6,etc

Clicking that link would open a new message for the users with those IDs. So usecase is someone filters for desired users, results page includes a dynamic link generated by displayed users link described above, and a message box pops up with those filtered users in the To field.

Make sense?

Hi y2gabs,

Thank you for your explanation!

You could use the filter ‘bps_search_results’ to save the user IDs for later use:

add_filter ('bps_search_results', 'save_user_ids');
function save_user_ids ($user_ids)
{
	global $saved_user_ids;

	$saved_user_ids = $user_ids;
	return $user_ids;
}

Thank you so much sir for your help here. Sorry for my delay, I had to wait to the weekend to implement. Could you help me understand a little bit. How can I get the above code to output a string of displayed user ids with commas between each? Trying to use this function with a shortcode call in my functions.php doesn’t seem to be displaying anything.

Thank you so much!

Hello y2gabs,

I assume you are able to display your dynamic link with a fixed list of numbers in your results page.

Now, add the code I provided to your bp-custom.php file (functions.php is OK too). Then go back to the code you use to display your dynamic link, and replace the fixed list of numbers with those in the global $saved_user_ids array.

Hope this helps!

Hi Andrea! Thank you so much for your help here and I sincerely apologize for my tardy response. I only have the time to try this code on the weekends due to fulltime weekday job but am now on holidays and can dedicate more to this project. So I tried the code again last weekend by adding it to functions.php as follows. And tried calling it via shortcode in to my URL. I am indeed able to get the URL to work no problem with static user IDs (comma separated as discussed) but the following code does not seem to return anything. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much again!

add_filter ('bps_search_results', 'save_user_ids');
function save_user_ids ($user_ids)
{
	global $saved_user_ids;

	$saved_user_ids = $user_ids;
	return $user_ids;
}

add_shortcode( 'displayed_user_ids', 'save_user_ids' );

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by y2gabs.

Hi y2gabs,

Try this:

1) enter the code I provided as it is, without adding the add_shortcode line, in your bp-custom.php file (functions.php is OK too);

2) now go back to your URL with comma separated user IDs, and replace the user ID list with the saved IDs, like this:

// replace

https://your_url/?ids=2,3,4,5

// with

https://your_url/?ids=<?php global $saved_user_ids; echo implode (',', $saved_user_ids); ?>

Thank you so much Andrea. One problem is that I’m trying to add the Message URL via widget (long story) and without using some additional code enabled widget. So my only option is to do so with a shortcode. Is there an adjustment to the code provided above that would let me insert the URL as a shortcode or at least the dynamic portion as a shortcode?

Thanks again!

I suggest you add your static URL with a shortcode in the way you need for your project. That’s independent of BP Profile Search, so you don’t need my support there.

Then go back to the static URL you already added with your shortcode, replace the static ID list with the code I explained above, and that should do the trick.

Thanks Andrea. The problem is that ‘global $saved_user_ids;’ doesn’t seem to contain anything. I’ve tested my function with just a string and assigning a string to a variable that’s returned in a shortcode and it all works fine. But calling anything from saved_user_ids variable just returns blanks. Are you sure that’s the appropriate global variable? I can’t seem to figure this out :/

Yes, the array name is right.

The problem is that a shortcode is processed *before* the search runs, so the array is still empty. I see no solution to this problem, the only way I see is not to use a shortcode after all.