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[Resolved] Buddypress Unread Message Count

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  • Participant
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    Mwale on September 6, 2018 at 2:40 pm #17147

    Hello,

    I am trying to show the number of unread messages a user has, but can’t find the code anywhere. Please help 🙂

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    Ravi on September 6, 2018 at 7:15 pm #17149

    Hello Mwale,

    Thank you for asking. There is a message function with name “messages_get_unread_count( $user_id = 0 )” it returns unread message count for the user id. Please try this.

    Regards
    Ravi

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    Mwale on September 6, 2018 at 7:46 pm #17151

    Hi Ravi,

    Thank you for your reply 🙂

    Unfortunately, that leads to a fatal error ‘undefined function’. I am adding it like so:

    <a id="user-messages" href="/messages/" class="msg">Messages <span class="alert_count"><?php if( class_exists( 'Buddypress' ) ) {echo messages_get_unread_count( $user_id = 0 );} ?></span></a>

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    Brajesh Singh on September 7, 2018 at 2:03 am #17161

    Hi Mwale,

    1. Please make sure you have BuddyPress Messages component enable where you are trying to use the function.

    2. For fetching current user’s count, you can use

    
<a id="user-messages" href="/messages/" class="msg">Messages <span class="alert_count"><?php if( class_exists( 'Buddypress' ) ) {echo messages_get_unread_count( get_current_user_id() );} ?></span></a>

    I do suggest that instead of checking for BuddyPress class, you might want to check function_exists for the above function. That way, if messages component is disabled, it won’t cause fatal error.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Mwale on September 8, 2018 at 6:01 pm #17191

    Hey Brajesh!

    Thank you so much! Everything works fine thanks to you 🙂

    I have also changed the condition to ‘function_exists’, thanks!

    Kind regards,
    Mwale

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    Brajesh Singh on September 9, 2018 at 6:11 am #17195

    Thank you MWale,

    Glad that it worked.
    Have a great day 🙂

    Regards
    Brajesh

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