[buddypress-dev] Updates

[Andy Peatling]

On 6-Sep-08, at 8:27 PM, phlux0r wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> all this sounds great, just what I was looking for in the start.  
> Now, will it be straightforward to update an existing BP install  
> with the new stuff or is it likely to cause problems?

Likely to cause problems. There is no way around this as it's a fairly  
significant change to the underlying architecture. You could get  
around it by manually adding usermeta to the DB. You'd need to add  
this metadata for each user:

user_id: the user id
metakey: home_base
metavalue: the blog id of the blog to make the home base.

> Also, I've been delving deeper into my current project and one of my  
> client's requests was to have a Members listing page where the  
> display would include: Avatar, Name, City, Country, an excerpt from  
> and "About Me" field and the person's blogs. Also, the list needs to  
> be sortable by name, city, country and searchable by name. This was  
> a bit of a challenge to implement as the profile fields are set up  
> the way they are in the bp_xprofile_* tables. I ended up loading the  
> data into an array and performing the sorting etc in php which isn't  
> so optimal. I'm concerned that there could be performance issues in  
> a production environment with this solution.

Definitely interested to hear possible solutions to this. Perhaps  
there is a better way to structure the DB tables for the xprofile  
component? I'll have a look into ways we can make this easier.  
Suggestions from any developers on the list would be awesome.

> This brings me to the question whether the BP team has been  
> considering issues such as this? Is there any way to make it easy to  
> handle lists of members (and blogs) with the extra profile info?

As the home theme (which will be the place for member lists/blog lists/ 
aggregated content) hasn't been built yet, no. Once we get to that,  
then these issues will be addressed and we'll build functions to make  
this easy.

Cheers
Andy

>
> Andy Peatling wrote:
>> Most likely the middle of next week. I was aiming for Friday, but  
>> there are a few things still to fix up.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On 3-Sep-08, at 10:00 PM, Brian B wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds incredible. Thanks for the update Andy!
>>>
>>> Any eta on the initial trunk release with the core of the home  
>>> base change?
>>>
>>> - Brian
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