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We need to show certain profile fields outside of the bp_has_profile loop.
It seems, in 1.5, you can’t use xprofile_get_field_data() outside of the profile loop without doing your own unserializing.

Inside a bp_profile_group_has_fields() loop, serialized fields are handled correctly.

But on a profile page, outside that loop, they are not recognized as being serialized, therefore they are not unserialized.

Example:

$values = xprofile_get_field_data(97);
echo $values;  //result: Array

var_dump($values);
//result: array(3) { [0]=> string(7) "Friends" [1]=> string(19) "Business Networking" [2]=> string(21) "Relationship / Dating" }

// is_serialized($values)  // result: false

//so you have to 'manually' unserialize them
$all_values = array();
foreach( (array)$values as $value ) {
$all_values[] = $value;
}
$values_str = implode( ', ', $all_values );

echo "<br>" . $values_str . "<br>";
//result: Friends, Business Networking, Relationship / Dating