It can’t be done right now, but you can do that making a plugin sure
Nicola
Hey Nicola,
I don’t mean to disagree with you, and Im sure you know more than me, but I think this IS possible….I’ve done it on other WP installs
once the extra profile fields are created, I just need a way to call them back.
(I realize I would be removing the “get additional fields” function and just code it by hand)
For example if I wanted to display the users first name, I would use this:
Register Page:
<input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" class="input" value="" size="25" tabindex="20" /></label>
Profile Page:
<input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" class="input" value="<?php echo $_GET['first_name']; ?>" size="25" tabindex="20" READONLY=READONLY /></label>
so rather than displaying the form fields dynamically(x_profile), I would just hand code them in based on what “extra fields” I’ve created
that will work won’t it?
I just need to know which files to modify….
thanks for brainstorming with me
“you can do that making a plugin sure”
i said 
For plugins i mean doing the thing you’ve thought
I see, I see… thanks
by “make plugin” you mean just handcode what i want….
can you tell me which files to edit:
wp-signup.php
(edit this to add extra fields to registration once I remove x_profile functionality)
how about the “edit profile” page?
which PHP file is that?
I still need to display those fields as “readonly”
thanks again
You’ll have to modify the member theme functions that display the fields in the profile. That gets generated in: /buddypress-member/profile/profile-loop.php
by the function: bp_the_profile_field_value() in /mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php
There’s a filter in there that you can hook: echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_profile_field_value’, $field->data->value, $field->type, $field->id );
So that you can detect these specific fields and change what gets generated by bp.
I think i understand what you mean…. well… not really
‘
function bp_the_profile_field_value() {
global $field;
$field->data->value = bp_unserialize_profile_field( $field->data->value );
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_profile_field_value’, $field->data->value, $field->type, $field->id );
}
‘
you’re saying add a “if” statement, so if the “x_profile fields = this” do “this”…..
I dont know enough about php….
it appears the profile fields are being named rather generically…
i.e.
field_1
(first name)
field_2
(xprofile field #1)
field_3
(xprofile field #2)
I need a way to manually call/insert these values… and Im assuming they aren’t named “field_3” in the database
I was hoping if i add an extra field and call it “Referred by” that the DB table name would be “referred_by”
this this a correct presumption?
I have little knowledge of functions and this code has ALOT of them….
Actually it’s pretty easy to see what profile fields are called in the DB – Check the wp_bp_xprofile_fields table and you’ll have an ID associated with each field which you should be able to use to call them.
