Limited Search Range

Hi, sorry I don’t know the answer but I’m following this as I have the same issue. Thanks, Matt.

Hi, @mattrea

I found this solution from someplace else (thanks for Buddydev.com) and it worked perfectly for me. So I shared it here and hope it will probably solve your issue as well.

/**
 * Limit BP profile search plugin to user who are members of the current user's group
 * @param $users
 *
 * @return array
 */
function buddydev_limit_users_search_to_group_members( $users ) {
	// Do not check for non logged in or the site admin.
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() || is_super_admin() ) {
		return $users;
	}

	$logged_id = get_current_user_id();
	$groups = groups_get_user_groups( $logged_id );
	// If the user does not belong to any group, the result should be empty.
	if ( empty( $groups['groups'] ) ) {
		//this user does not belong to any group
		$users = array();//array( 0, 0 ); // Limit to invalid user.
		return $users;
	}

	// if we are here, the user has some groups, let us find out the members of those groups.
	global $wpdb;
	$bp = buddypress();

	$list = '(' . join( ',', $groups['groups'] ) . ')';

	$member_ids =  $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT user_id FROM {$bp->groups->table_name_members} WHERE group_id IN {$list} AND is_confirmed = 1 AND is_banned = 0 AND user_id != %d",$logged_id ) );

	if ( ! empty( $member_ids ) ) {
		$users = array_intersect( $users, $member_ids ); // set intersection.
	} else {
		$users = array();
	}

	return $users;
}
add_filter( 'bps_filter_members', 'buddydev_limit_users_search_to_group_members' );

You can put it in your bp-custom.php file.

This code snippet is provided from BuddyDev.com. I just copied and pasted here as it worked for me.

Hope you have a good day!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by Dandy.

Hi @dandyjefferson and @mattrea,

Sorry I wasn’t able to reply earlier, and thank you Dandy for sharing the solution you found!

Hi, @dontdream

No problem. Just hope it will help @mattrea as well.

Have a good day!