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Sorry I misunderstood your question. I thought you meant you were looking to join wp_bp_xprofile_data and wp_bp_xprofile_fields.

I’m thinking you’ll have to join the same table together in order to do what you want.

I don’t do extra profile fields. I use that to redirect to a payment page so they can pay to join. After they pay, I redirect them to a Thank You page with their payment details. This is just a page with a special page template applied to it. I also have the activation disabled and they are just automatically activated and logged into the site. I can get away with this since they have to pay.

Go into the dashboard and look for the BuddyPress ‘Profile Field Setup’ link

Exactly what I needed! Thanks!

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.

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-profile-setup (replace yourdomain.com with your domain)

That’s the page where you can add more fields that people can fill out at registration and will appear in the person’s profile.

Did you create separate profile groups? If so, only the first profile group will be displayed on the registration page.

If you want to add all fields to the registration page, you have to add them all to the first profile group.

@contoaberto

Its better to notify using @mention feature.So that you will get your reply faster and also the notification goes to the user you intended to ask.Anyways I will do it for you.

@boonebgorges
hi, Boone Gorges,

Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way?

What do you mean by brackets?
1 ( these )
2 { these }
3 [ these ]
or something else?

What’s happening when users try to use them? And in what context are they using them, activity updates or forum posts or profile fields or what?

And what version of BP/WP are you running? https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

I’m also facing same issue.. even I added manually insert query inside code like this (I have stored the values in session)

$sql=”INSERT INTO wp_bp_xprofile_data (field_id, user_id, value) VALUES(1,$curr_id, ‘”.$_SESSION.”‘)”;
result=mysql_query($sql)or die(mysql_error());

This is storing the data in database but not retrieving
@shedmore did u got this fixed up ???

Cool, good luck!

That will work. The only problem is that it’s not entirely future-proof. If the structure of the $field object changes in future versions of BP, you’ll have to rewrite the code.

If I were you, I would use a profile loop, as described at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/. That way you can use the built-in template tags, which won’t break when BP is upgraded.

The xprofile template tags aren’t as fleshed out as I wish they were, but they should work nicely for your purpose. Put the three fields that you want to appear in column 1 in a profile field group, the next three fields in another group, etc. Then it’ll be easy to create the markup using bp_profile_groups() loop.

I understand your question, and you’re right, there is no such function. But from inside of a profile loop, you can use bp_the_profile_field_name(), and it will get the $field_id implicitly from the loop iteration.

If you don’t want to build a loop, you can get the field name from the $field_id like this:

$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( $field_id );
$field_name = $field->name;


Yes, you can do this with the xprofile template functions, which are located at buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php. Use the profile loops in buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php as a template.