During a recent project, I needed to get certain User Profile Data to be used. This was used outside any loops and not on the Profile page. Hopefully this will help others seeking the same information.

To obtain the default data (such as User ID, User Login, ect) use the following:
`global $bp;
$the_user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->userdata->ID;
$the_user_login = $bp->loggedin_user->userdata->user_login;`

Userdata values include:
ID
user_login
user_pass (this is encrypted MD5 Hash)
user_nicename
user_email
user_url
user_registered
user_activation_key
user_status
display_name

To get field data from extended profile fields for the current logged in user, use the following:
`$the_first_name = bp_get_profile_field_data(‘field=First Name&user_id=’.bp_loggedin_user_id());
/* Change field name to the one you added to the profile, or if you know the field’s #, you can use that instead. */
`

I do hope this helps someone else. It drove me nuts trying to track down the info, but after piecing bits of information together, I was able to get this figured out.
Have fun!
Ed

[@n3k0 Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

Excelent… thats works fine, is i was looking for thansk a lot… online a cuestion, how i can display correctly date fields @enailor ???

[@mamb2b Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks a lot for this awesome topic. It helped me a lot …

[@trinzia Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

I would like to display data from Xprofile next to member’s comments.

I added an Xprofile field for Location, and can show it in my theme:

$bp_location = bp_get_profile_field_data(‘field=Location&user_id=’.bp_loggedin_user_id());
echo $bp_location;

This is showing the location of the logged in user, not the comment author.
Any idea how I could show the Location field for each comment author? WP codex didn’t have comment-author-ID, and I wasn’t sure if BP uses the same IDs anyway.

Thanks!

[@shanebp Moderator 11 years, 4 months ago]

If you mean activity comments…

$bp_location = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Location&user_id=' . bp_get_activity_comment_user_id() );
echo $bp_location;

If you mean post comments, I think you need to create a custom comment display.
Example: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display

[@trinzia Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

This is for customized comments on custom post types. The specific question is what user ID I would use, to display an xProfile field for each comment author.

I found WP’s comment author name and link, but not ID. If I did manage to get the comment author ID somehow (haven’t managed that yet), would it work with BP’s fields?

[@shanebp Moderator 11 years, 3 months ago]

>would it work with BP’s fields

It should.
You can always hard code an ID to find out.

[@trinzia Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

If anyone needs this snippet, here’s how I displayed ProfileX data in my theme’s comments.php. Inside your custom comments layout, add this:

<?php
$author_id = get_comment(get_comment_ID())->user_id;
if (function_exists('bp_get_profile_field_data')) {
	$bp_location = bp_get_profile_field_data('field=Location&user_id='.$author_id);
	if ($bp_location) {
		echo '<div class="authorinfo">'. $bp_location . '</div>';
	}
}
?>

You will need to change ‘location’ to the name of your ProfileX field.
Note that, if you allow users to comment who are not logged in, the $author_id will be zero.

[@mohammad-mursaleen Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks Trinzia!

$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
$bp_city = bp_get_profile_field_data('field=City&user_id='.$user_id);

This worked for me.