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[Resolved] How to Identify a Group Post

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    ljmac on July 8, 2016 at 7:18 pm #4628

    Hi Brajesh,

    Tried to get an answer to this at buddypress.org but no luck as usual, but it should be a simple one for you.

    I really need a way of identifying an activity as a group post, along the lines of “if_is_group_post”. Such a function doesn’t appear to exist in BuddyPress, and surprisingly they don’t even have their own post type (just another activity update). So how can I identify an activity as a group post?

    Regards,
    Lee

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    Brajesh Singh on July 9, 2016 at 10:05 am #4632

    Hi Lee,
    Thank you for posting.
    We can write a function like below to do check for ourself.

    
function lee_is_group_activity( $activity = null ) {
	
	global $activities_template;
	
	if ( ! $activity ) {
		$activity  = $activities_template->activity;
	}
	
	if ( $activity && $activity->component == 'groups' && $activity->type == 'activity_update' ) {
		return true;
	}
	
	return false;
}

    Hope that helps.

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    ljmac on July 9, 2016 at 10:37 am #4633

    Thanks Brajesh – that’s awesome! I like how your code is almost always very clean and comprehensible – it allows me to adapt it to various needs easily.

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    ljmac on July 9, 2016 at 10:42 am #4634

    One more thing I want to do along the same lines: identifying if an activity is an @mention, Once again there is no activity type for this – it would appear to require a search. Can you give me a similar function for this purpose?

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    Brajesh Singh on July 9, 2016 at 10:42 am #4635

    Thank you Lee. It is a pleasure to help 🙂

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    Brajesh Singh on July 9, 2016 at 10:49 am #4636

    Hi Lee,
    for @mention, There is no direct way to identify. It is possible to do a search on the activity_content using

    
bp_activity_find_mentions( $content)

    This function will return an array of mentioned user names or false if none found.

    Hope you can take from there.

    PS: Doing an search for mention on all activity will not be very efficient, I will recommed another approach(Like when the activity is created, check for mention and store a meta, then use this meta later).

    Hope that helps.

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    ljmac on July 9, 2016 at 10:52 am #4637

    Thanks again Brajesh – you’re a champion.

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    Brajesh Singh on July 9, 2016 at 1:57 pm #4638

    Thank you for the kind words 🙂

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