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[Resolved] How to get the avatar associated with a member type?

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    Timothy Fisher on April 6, 2019 at 8:24 pm #22040

    I have the member types pro plugin, and I’m looking to display the member types associated with a user along with the avatar of the member type. How can I get the avatar URLs for the member types associated with a user?

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    Brajesh Singh on April 7, 2019 at 6:07 pm #22055

    Hi Timothy,
    Thank you for using BuddyPress Member Types pro.

    In order to assist you, I will need a little more details.

    Question:- Where do you want to show the member type with avatar? On directory page? or using shortcode or on single users profile?

    Please let me know and I will assist.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Timothy Fisher on April 8, 2019 at 5:26 am #22081

    Hi Brajesh! Thanks for the response.

    I would like to show the member type avatar within a shortcode. I’m building a shortcode and I have retrieved the list of member types by using bp_get_member_types( array(), 'objects' );.

    I was thinking I’d have to use bp_core_fetch_avatar(), but I don’t see an item_id to use here.

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    Brajesh Singh on April 8, 2019 at 6:49 am #22082

    Hi Timothy,
    At the moment, we don’t have an API for retrieving the Avatar URL for member type. It is an isolated module.

    There is a way to get the avatar url efficiently(there are other option but that does not uses proper caching).

    I wrote a custom function that you may use

    

/**
 * Get avatar associated with a member type.
 *
 * @param string $member_type member type.
 * @param string $thumb_type thumbnail type(thumb|full).
 *
 * @return string
 */
function mtp_custom_get_avatar_url( $member_type, $thumb_type = 'thumb' ) {

	$mtp_object = bpmtp_get_member_type_entry( $member_type );

	if ( ! $mtp_object ) {
		return '';
	}

	$post_id = $mtp_object->post_id;

	if ( ! $post_id ) {
		return '';
	}

	$avatar_url = '';

	switch ( $thumb_type ) {
		case 'thumb':
			$avatar_url = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_bp_member_type_associated_avatar_thumb_url', true );
			break;

		case 'full':
			$avatar_url = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_bp_member_type_associated_avatar_full_url', true );

			break;
	}

	return $avatar_url;
}

    Once you have put it in your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php in wp-content/plugins. you can use it to get the url of the avatar image.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards
    Brajesh

    • This reply was modified 5 years ago by Brajesh Singh. Reason: Code updated
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    Timothy Fisher on April 8, 2019 at 6:51 am #22084

    EDIT:

    Didn’t see that you had posted a reply already. As you mentioned other versions don’t use caching, which is probably the version I posted below. I will go with your function, thank you!!

    I ended up finding the class-bpmtp-avatar-helper.php file! I saw that in there you guys use get_post_meta. So I did something like this:

    

$member_types = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'bp-member-type', 'numberposts' => -1 ) );

foreach ( $member_types as $member_type ) {
    $avatar_full_url = get_post_meta( $member_type->ID, '_bp_member_type_associated_avatar_full_url', true );
}
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    Brajesh Singh on April 8, 2019 at 6:56 am #22089

    Hi Timothy,
    Your code will work fine. By using my previous suggestion, you can avoid extra database query for fetching post type entries(We already fetch them for .

    PS:- Please use my updated code. In the previous code even I used an inefficient internal method.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Brajesh Singh on April 8, 2019 at 6:57 am #22090

    Oops. It seems I have been messing it.

    Please keep using your own for now. It does causes double query but is still better than my suggestion.

    I will share better code later today.

    regards
    Brajesh

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    Brajesh Singh on April 9, 2019 at 11:23 am #22138

    Hi Timothy,
    Hope you are doing well.

    Your code will work fine. If you want further improvement and saving some query, you may use

    

$mtp_objects = bpmtp_get_active_member_type_entries();

    It returns an array of BPMTP_Member_Types_Pro_Entry. Each contains a post_id. You can use the post id to fetch avatar.

    This will save double queries as the member types are cached per request.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Timothy Fisher on April 10, 2019 at 3:01 pm #22168

    Awesome, thank you Brajesh!

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    Brajesh Singh on April 10, 2019 at 3:39 pm #22170

    You are welcome.

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