How to auto-accept a friend-request in buddypress based on user meta

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I’m still getting my head around buddypress, so far so good but I’ve hit a snag where I want certain users who are flagged as an ‘expert’ to automatically accept any friend requests people make.

I’ve found a couple of functions related to this but I think I’m missing something that would make this simpler such as setting a constant or overriding part of the $bp global…

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What I have so far is the following: 

function bp_auto_accept_friend_request( $friendship_id, $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id ) {
    if ( is_user_expert( $friendship_friend_id ) ) {
        // force add
        friends_accept_friendship( $friendship_id );
        friends_add_friend( $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id, true );
    }
}
add_action('friends_friendship_requested', 'bp_auto_accept_friend_request', 200, 3);

Can anyone tell me where I should be looking to make this nice and seamless just as if the main settings were set to bypass the request process please?

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  1. UPDATE

    try this

    function bp_auto_accept_friend_request( $friendship_id, $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id ) {
        $friendship_status = BP_Friends_Friendship::check_is_friend( $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id );
        if ( 'not_friends' == $friendship_status ) {
            if ( is_user_expert( $friendship_friend_id ) ) {
            // force add
            friends_add_friend( $friendship_initiator_id, $friendship_friend_id, true );
            friends_accept_friendship( $friendship_id );
        }
        }
    }
    add_action('friends_friendship_requested', 'bp_auto_accept_friend_request', 200, 3);

    this way we only call friends_add_friend function with $force = true if they are not friends yet.