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[Resolved] Exclude from sitewude activity stream per user id

  • Participant
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    Michael on December 26, 2024 at 12:23 am #54245

    Hi guys,

    I’m trying to create code to allow my website users to be excluded from the sitewide activity stream, per user id.

    They simply request to admin to be excluded and I add their user id to the $exclude array and that’s it. A bit crude, but simple and it works.

    But there is an issue with one type of activity, the one which shows in the activity stream as “UserA and UserB are now friends x-time ago”

    My code correctly excludes this activity if the initiator of the friendship request is in my array.

    But I require this activity to be excluded also if the “accepter” is in the array.

    So if the initiator OR the accepter is in the array then the activity should be hidden (sitewide).

    Could you assist please?

    My code is below.

    `
    function do_not_display_sitewide( $activity_object ) {

    // array of user IDs
    $exclude = array( 1, 2, 3 );

    if( in_array( $activity_object->user_id, $exclude ) )
    $activity_object->hide_sitewide = true;

    }
    add_action(‘bp_activity_before_save’, ‘do_not_display_sitewide’, 1, 1 );

    So something is missing from my code.

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    Michael on December 26, 2024 at 12:26 am #54246

    Sorry, it pasted messy and won’t let me edit.

    Here it is again.

    
function do_not_display_sitewide( $activity_object ) {

	// array of user IDs
    $exclude = array( 1, 2, 3 );

    if( in_array( $activity_object->user_id, $exclude ) )
        $activity_object->hide_sitewide = true;
 
}
add_action('bp_activity_before_save', 'do_not_display_sitewide', 1, 1 );
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    Michael on December 28, 2024 at 8:19 pm #54349

    Update: I looked in the database and it seems like the “secondary_item_id” was also being used to hold info for the type “friendship_created”, so both userIDs can be checked, both initiator and accepter.

    I updated my code, it works.

    It’s probably poor code, I am not a coder!

    Could you please check it’s safe.

    Thankyou.

    

function do_not_display_sitewide( $activity_object ) {

	// array of user IDs
	$exclude = array( 1, 2, 3 );

	if( in_array( $activity_object->user_id, $exclude ) )
		return $activity_object->hide_sitewide = true;
	
	if( in_array( $activity_object->secondary_item_id, $exclude ) && $activity_object->type === 'friendship_created')
		return $activity_object->hide_sitewide = true;
}
add_action('bp_activity_before_save', 'do_not_display_sitewide', 1, 1 );
    • This reply was modified 1 month ago by Michael.
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    Brajesh Singh on January 1, 2025 at 1:22 am #54442

    Hi Michael,
    Thank you for your post.

    Your approach in https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-from-sitewude-activity-stream-per-user-id/#post-54246 is correct one.

    There is a problem with your second approach in https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-from-sitewude-activity-stream-per-user-id/#post-54349

    1. The first approach always hides activity (marks as private) irrespective of what activity type it is.
    2. secondary_item_id could be a lot of things depending on context. It could be a user id or another object id and I will advise checking against it unless you check the $activity->type to ensure secondary_item_id will be user id.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Michael on January 2, 2025 at 11:16 am #54452

    Thankyou Rajesh, much appreciated.

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    Brajesh Singh on January 9, 2025 at 8:04 pm #54540

    You are welcome.

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