[fel64]

How do you add a tab to the three tabs – “Profile”, “Edit” and “Favourites” – visible only in the profile? I want to add a tab for the avatar and am fairly sure there’s a hook bb_profile_menu but I’m not sure what to do with it. The API certainly supports adding them, the code’s there, but I’m not sure how to do it. Anyone know?

[Sam Bauers]

Look at the function global_profile_menu_structure.

You just need to create a function that pulls in the array variable $profile_menu as a global. Then add to that array in the manner specified in the comments of the function global_profile_menu_structure.

Should be downhill from there.

p.s. Would be nice if you could add an entry for it at bbPulp when you are done.

[fel64]

Cheers Sam, that’s definitely the way to do it, but I can’t quite make it work. Adding the tab is easy, but following the link dumps you on the front page (if using add_profile_tab()) or in your profile (if adding the tab manually).

function felavatartab()

{

global $profile_menu, $profile_hooks;

$profile_tab = array(__('Avatar'), 'edit_profile', 'moderate', 'avatar-upload.php', 'avatar');

$profile_menu[] = $profile_tab;

if ( can_access_tab( $profile_tab, bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ), $user_id ) )

$profile_hooks[bb_tag_sanitize($profile_tab[4])] = $profile_tab[3];

}

add_action( 'bb_profile_menu', 'felavatartab' );

OR

function felavatartab()

{

add_profile_tab(__('Avatar'), 'edit_profile', 'moderate', 'avatar-upload.php');

}

add_action( 'bb_profile_menu', 'felavatartab' );

I’ve got the file avatar-upload.php in my root directory, which loads the template avatar.php. If instead you give avatar.php as your argument the tab doesn’t show up at all.

See it here. Any idea?

[Sam Bauers]

I tested the second method on the latest build and it passes the bb_repermalink tests and loads.

I tried using standard URLs and both types of permalinks.

I didn’t try to load a template. I used a file called avatar-upload.php containing the following:

<?php

require_once('./bb-load.php');



bb_repermalink(); // The magic happens here.



echo 'test';

?>

My test plugin contained:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Test for fel64

Plugin URI:

Description: Test profile tab addition

Author: Scooby Doo

Version: 0.0.1

Author URI:

*/



$bb->debug = 1;



function felavatartab()

{

add_profile_tab(__('Avatar'), 'edit_profile', 'moderate', 'avatar-upload.php');

}



add_action( 'bb_profile_menu', 'felavatartab' );

?>

[fel64]

Should really have been more familiar with the code – there’s a check to see if it’s the correct file, otherwise it simply redirects to the front page. Getting rid of that made it work.

Thanks for all your help, Sam!

[LMD]

Aha! Thank you Sam! As fel has already discovered I abandoned any attempt at having “Upload Avatar” as a profile tab. It’s definitely going into the next version.

[fel64]

Note that you will have to get rid of the filename check and that all that $user_id business is unnecessary and stopped my script executing. Just grab the global $user.