Get total count of friends by $flag->get_user_count

Currently there is not way other than a direct query of the flag_friend table. However I'm open to adding this as a feature. Do you have a proposed way of going about adding it?

This would be quite useful, however I think we really need to implement our own function for this. $flag->get_user_count() is going to be unreliable for a few reasons.

1) It only will get you a list of 'pending' friends, or people that you have requested to be friend with.
2) Of that list, it will include 'blocked' users, rendering the count different than what Views will report.
3) We need a list of actual friends (from the flag_friend table) instead of just flagged users, or requests.

Making this a task.

Subscribing. Thanks

Is there any update to this. I have been struggling with the same problem. Is there any "quick fix" for the meantime? I was using $flag->get_user_count until I finally realized it was only showing pending friends.

try this simple query:

global $user;
$friend_count = db_result(db_query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {flag_friend} WHERE uid = %d OR friend_uid = %d', $user->uid, $user->uid));

I tried that but it didn't work. This code did for me however:

Not sure if it is the best way to write the code, but it works! Thanks!

<?php
$flag = flag_get_flag('friend');
print flag_friend_get_friend_count($account_id);
?>

seeing as this function was added at some point (I lost track) marking as fixed.

Sorry for bringing this up late, but how do you implement this if it has been added?

You implemented it just fine in #7