you coded it wrong, and we don’t know where you coded it. The mentionned elements i give you should be into a function, and depending where it must appear, you have to add or alter an existing filter.

I can’t help you more because you don’t give any details for what you exactly want to do so , on witch theme (name?) and BP version…[Read more]

works better by using  both xprofile_get_field_data and a user_id !

    $user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();

// if “Class” is the field name
$mystuf = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Class’, $user_id );

Application example here:

http://wpmu.org/buddypress-profile-data-on-multisite/