Post Form, user without groups

[SGr33n]

Hi :)

On BuddyPress if the user have no groups, the post update form will show a select field with just one option. This will show the select field only if the user has groups. Just added bp_get_total_group_count_for_user() > 0 to the conditions.

[DJPaul]

I think a decent idea but the function you added ends up calling a (cached) DB query, which isn't ideal. Have you looked through the buddypres() global at this point of execution, and see if there are any existing properties set which we could use to do the same thing?

[SGr33n]

You're right, I didn't see the function source... anyway I can see that it uses

class BP_Groups_Member

that has a

refresh_total_group_count_for_user

Now, do you know if when a user joins a group this refresh is called? In this case I suppose that the cache should always be in sync... on the opposite case do you think that count total groups on every page where there is a whats-new form could be too heavy?

[r-a-y]

I do not see a problem with using a cached count function here.

We use bp_get_total_group_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) on the groups directory for the "My Groups" tab and that is almost the same use case here.

[DJPaul]

@hnla @imath can you check for this issue in the new template pack, and if it exists, move this issue to github?

I don't want to make this change to BP-Legacy any more.

[imath]

@DJPaul just checked, we are using an autocomplete control in BP Nouveau instead of the select box. And i've just checked we don't have this issue in BP Nouveau.

If the user has no groups, the control to post in profile or in groups is not displayed. So we're fine :)