Topic: Help using $bp->displayed_user->id

Help using $bp->displayed_user->id

takuya
Participant

@takuya

14 years, 11 months ago

Is there any way that I can use $bp->displayed_user->id within a php code?

I’m using an external plugin, which needs to retrieve user id like this:

<?php functionname (userid, 'definition') ?>

and I was trying to use $bp->displayed_user->id to get user id, but I couldn’t. I also tried wp’s the_author_ID but it failed as I can’t use it within the loop.

<?php echo $bp->displayed_user->id ?>

This above returns the user ID properly… but it can’t be used within another php code as far as I’ve tried…

Do you know any other ways to get user ID?

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Jan M.
Participant

@jotem

14 years, 11 months ago

You’ll have to declare $bp as a global variable in your function, so you can access it in your function.

global $bp; echo $bp->displayed_user->id; //Should work fine
takuya
Participant

@takuya

14 years, 11 months ago
thanks, but not sure how to write it properly… Should it be like this?
```
<?php<br />

global $bp;<br />

echo $bp->displayed_user->id;<br />

functionname ($bp->displayed_user->id, 'definition')<br />

?>
```
takuya
Participant

@takuya

14 years, 11 months ago

This is the code I’m trying to make it work…

<?php global $bp;
echo $bp->displayed_user->id; get_cimyFieldValue ($bp->displayed_user->id, 'CURRENT')
?>

It now returns the user ID properly, but it just shows the user ID and not returning the plugin function at all. wondering why the plugin code doesn’t show specific filed data based on the user id given…

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

14 years, 11 months ago

I’m not sure what that function does but perhaps echo get_cimyFieldValue(..) would work? Does it echo the results of what it does?

takuya
Participant

@takuya

14 years, 11 months ago

It’s supposed to return text field data from wp’s profile, but so far it only returns the user id. (even if I add echo before the function)

Vernon Fowler
Participant

@vernonfowler

12 years, 6 months ago

Adding `global $bp;` helped me in a basic conditional test. Thanks and I hope this old issue has been resolved.

workinclasshero
Participant

@workinclasshero

10 years, 4 months ago

The problem is you need to store the result in a variable like this:

$userID = $bp->displayed_user->id;

I know this is an old thread but it might help someone down the road.