BP Profile Search problems with required fields in BP 1.5

Hi Ross,

Thank you for your feedback, I didn’t realize that BP 1.5 changed the required field behaviour.

I’ll look into this over the coming holidays. Should you solve this issue before I do, I’ll happily accept a patch!

Hi @Rossagent – Any luck getting this fixed?

I’ll take a look tomorrow – but thought i’d check.

Ta,

@noriise, I currently have the plugin disabled at the moment as I can’t use it in it’s current form.

Would be absolutely awesome if we could get a fix on the required fields issue.

Really would love to use it.

If you want to flip back to the old behaviour in a certain place, where you use bp_the_profile_field_options() or bp_get_the_profile_field_options(), set the null_on_required property to true. e.g.

bp_the_profile_field_options('null_on_required=true)

Thank you Paul, this is really helpful. I’ll release a BP Profile Search update shortly.

@paul Gibbs

Mr. Gibbs, yet again you have come to the rescue!

You’re an absolute legend mate!

Can’t wait for the update Andrea!

This is such a useful plugin!

Thanks for the update – didn’t work for me – any ideas? I added the condition as per Mr Gibbs suggestion. 4 instances in the bps-searchform.php

No instances of bp_get_the_profile_field_options() though.. For instance:

<?php				break;

				case 'selectbox':
?>					<label for="<?php bp_the_profile_field_input_name(); ?>"><?php bp_the_profile_field_name(); ?></label>
					<select name="<?php bp_the_profile_field_input_name(); ?>" id="<?php bp_the_profile_field_input_name(); ?>">
						<?php bp_the_profile_field_options('null_on_required=true'); ?>
					</select>

Sorry to confirm, it doesn’t seem to be working, and I didn’t find any instance of the string ‘null_on_required’ in the BuddyPress 1.5.4 source code. Perhaps it will be in BP 1.5.5?

The new BP Profile Search 2.8 is now available. It fixes the required fields display in the search form, and the Age Range Search feature that stopped working correctly in BP 1.5.

Thanks Julien for your Age Range patch, and thank you all for your feedback and suggestions!

Thanks a million Andrea. Unfortunatly it does not work for me.

I get the blank field now, but on search I get:

Sorry, no members were found.

Any ideas and once again many thanks for your hard work.

Once again, works for me now, no problem!

The only weird thing I did notice is that if I did a specific age range search that I knew I, myself should fall into, I wasn’t showing up in it at first, even though my Date Of Birth field was correctly filled out and should have shown in the search.

After saving my profile data again, I then showed up.

Is there a reason for that do you think, or did it just require a save, for it to update the plugin somehow with the field?

Is it likely other people will be missing from age range searches?

Thanks SO much for this!

Ross ??

Ross,

I think that was a cache problem. BP Profile Search doesn’t have a cache, but your installation or hosting environment could have many cache levels, and a glitch could happen.

Elliot,

I could have a look at your installation, if you send me a password for admin access (mail to [email protected]).

Thanks Andrea – Email sent ??