Topic: How to display custom profile field?

How to display custom profile field?

CriticalNed
Participant

@criticaltodd

15 years, 2 months ago

Is there a way to use template tags to display a single profile field?

For example, I created a field “Title” and I’d like to display that alongside the user’s blog posts, so it would say “Posted by TestUser (<b>Title: Cool Guy</b>), on Jan 30…”

As a test I tried <?php echo bp_get_field_data(3, 1); ?> where 3 is the custom field_id (“Title”) and 1 is the user_id. However, that failed to display anything.

I’m thinking about just doing a custom MySQL query…

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CriticalNed
Participant

@criticaltodd

15 years, 2 months ago

This one is up next on my development list, so I’ll just gratuitously BUMP this…

Is anybody aware of a way to call specific profile fields using BP functions, or is the only way to do this something like:

//get the country of the current post author. country field ID is 4.

$result = mysql_query(“SELECT value FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE user_id = ” . $current_author . ” AND field_id = ” . $country_field . ” LIMIT 1″);

$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

$profile_field = $row;

Hmm, I may have just answered my own question…

Andy Peatling
Keymaster

@apeatling

15 years, 2 months ago

There is a function:

<?php echo bp_get_field_data( $field_name, $user_id ) ?>

Scotm
Participant

@scotm

15 years, 2 months ago

Andy

Does this answer my question here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=610

CriticalNed
Participant

@criticaltodd

15 years, 2 months ago

Thank you, Andy. I did try that function but I must have forgotten to echo it. FOLKS, don’t forget to echo your functions!!

CriticalNed
Participant

@criticaltodd

15 years, 2 months ago

psfk
Participant

@psfk

15 years ago

Can someone tell me how can I use this code in the bp-core-directory-members.php so that I can list say the name of the City each member lives in under their name?

<?php echo bp_get_field_data( $field_name, $user_id ) ?>

I can make the random call work – but I’d rather just call a certain profile field – see http://purplelist.com/members.

psfk
Participant

@psfk

15 years ago

Ah – I worked it out:

<?php echo bp_get_field_data( 'One Line Summary', $user->user_id ) ?>

psfk
Participant

@psfk

15 years ago

Ah – ok. So I installed RC2 and the line failed…. any suggestions ?

Archie Webmaker
Participant

@weblogian

14 years ago

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