I have a function that add some custom profile fields in to the user profile in the backend wp-admin/profile.php. This is WordPress only so do not get confused.

here you can find the function

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields

There are four actions added.

add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘user_save_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile_update’, ‘user_save_define_category’ );

The function will add a input field into the backend user profile of WP. /wp-admin/profile.php

What i am looking for are the equivalents of the WP show_user_profile, edit_user_profile, personal_options_update and edit_user_profile_update for Buddypress.

So that the input field will show up on the frontend profile in g.e. /members/username/profile and /members/username/profile/edit/group/1

so

instead off

add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );

something like

add_action( ‘show_buddypress_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Open buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single. Individual member profiles are created with profile.php and profile/profile-loop.php. There are do_action definitions throughout those templates. Try hooking your function to anyone of them.

[@mediabros Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Hi Boone,

Thanks for the reply, i got a bit further by changing

add_action( ’show_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );

into

add_action( ‘bp_after_profile_loop_content’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘bp_after_profile_field_content’, ‘user_show_define_category’ );

Now it shows up well on the user frontend profile.

I can’t seem to find the correct way for updating

Do you have a clue what hook to use for personal_options_update and edit_user_profile_update?

add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘user_save_define_category’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile_update’, ‘user_save_define_category’ );

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

It’s going to be more complicated to save items into wp_usermeta (which is I assume what you’re doing, given the link) with update_user_meta() from the BP profile page. You’ll have to hook a function to somewhere in the BP loading process that will catch the value of $_POST and manipulate the data manually.

Can I ask what might be a silly question? Why don’t you just use BP profile fields? Dashboard > BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup. That’ll add new fields to the profile that can be displayed and updated natively through BuddyPress.

[@mediabros Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks i will look in to it more next day, the reason why i won’t use the plugin.

I want to give users the possibility to link themselves to a category.

Lets say i am building a marketplace.

I want the people that sell cosmetic products to be link to the category: cosmetics.

I thought to do it one step at the time and first to figure out how to save and display data from a input field.

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 5 months ago]

Yeah, it’s not all that easy to populate an xprofile dropdown dynamically. I can think of a few ways to do it, but it might be complex.

Here’s the general direction I’d move: http://pastebin.com/DM8YNzsq Obviously your $_POST array key will be something else, and you may want to do some data checking before saving. But that’s the skeleton of what you need.