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I’m sure you can but I haven’t looked at xprofile_fields just yet. A bunch of other problems to solve. Burt Adsit might be able to help

It\’s not found in a form. It is located in the wp_bp_xprofile_fields table as a piece of data.

The function xprofile_add_signup_fields in the file bp-xprofile-signup.php extracts it from that table.

Why don’t you just add two additional profile fields (last name & first name) , make them required so they show up on registration and then write a custom function to tweak the sign up email?

btw, this is standard across a lot of social media sites. Look at Facebook – aside from the fact that they login with email instead of username, they also have display name, first and last….just like BP can have. Make FullName your Display name.

if i’m not wrong, the Full Name has a filter, if you use it, you could replace it with the wp built-in name & last name, or use xprofile fields fot that,

it depends on your php & wp skills

I assume you’re specifically talking about customizing a BuddyPress template. If so, then you need to look in the BuddyPress profiles tables in MySQL.

For instance, the field definition for the “Full Name” field is stored in the wp_bp_xprofile_fields table and any corresponding datum is stored in the wp_bp_xprofile_data table.

With respect to this:

At the moment Buddypress/WP MU makes it very hard, perhaps impossible, to flexibly use member’s real names or other data (companyname, city) in the site or have something like ‘Hello John’ in email notifications.

That is not true. Any piece of stored data can be accessed and spit out in any number of ways. It just must first be in the database. Look in the bp-xprofile.php file and the bp-xprofile subdirectory for a number of functions that can be called to extract a user’s data.

By the way, I did see your other post about this topic and it was answered appropriately. With the default WPMU and BuddyPress setup, you will not be able to use a user’s full name until they’ve entered that data. They will not be able to enter their full name until after they register.

So, unless you hack the wp-signup.php or register.php files, and require that a full name be provided when registering, you will not be able to send them a welcome email with their full name since that piece of data does not yet exist.

All of what you are asking is possible but requires either a pre-existing plugin, a custom hack, or your ability in customizing and coding a BuddyPress template.

This is in the pipeline to come in future releases of BuddyPress (after v1.0).

somewhat of a similar issue:

xprofile fields are filled in, but don’t show on the profile,

changes made to certain fields don’t “save” or “show” on the profile

using trunk from a couple of weeks ago… and haven’t kept vary god track of the trunks

proly a few new ones since…. but my install gets more and more customized as time goes..

these updates, are they only to bp-xprofile files? or would i want to get the whole trunk?

danke

Is it still possible to rearrange via phpmyadmin, editing the filed IDs?

EXCELLENT!

Well, that was easy. I just try and clarify things and it gets hunted down by Andy. I could get used to this.

Found the problem, if you update to the latest it’s fixed.

In this first version it’s not possible to re-arrange, but it’s a high priority feature once 1.0 is out.

Checking this now.

I’m way confused as to what you are talking about.

1) You enter info in a profile field. Save the profile.

2) The info shows in the profile field.

3) You change the info in a profile field, leaving it blank. Save the profile.

What happens then?

The theme and the profile back end don’t support this right now but there is a mod you can try.

Change line 11 which reads:

<?php if ( bp_field_has_data()) : ?>

To read:

<?php if ( bp_field_has_data() && bp_field_has_public_data()) : ?>

In /bp-themes/buddypress-member/profile/profile-loop.php

Then you will manually have to use phpmyadmin and go into the table bp_xprofile_fields and change all the profile field records that are parent fields and have \’0\’ in the column \’is_public\’ to \’1\’ for the fields you want to show on the profile and \’0\’ for the fields you don\’t want to show.

Parent fields are the ones that have a \’0\’ in the \’parent_id\’ column.

Any field you create in the profile backend will appear in each user’s profile. Even if it doesn’t have anything in it.

More fields:

if ( 999 == $field_id || 998 == $field_id || 2 == $field_Id)

You can import anything you want into a mysql table. The catch is that tables relate to each other. The profile fields you see are composed of three tables that interrelate. We’ve got profile groups, fields and field data. Groups are composed of Fields and Fields have Data. They are all linked to each other.

What is the source data you are working with?

When will this be fixed officially? Commenting out the add_filter removes all the auto linking functions. I only want one section without auto linking.

User generated profile fields! I’d like if this feature is built in or by a plugin. However at this moment, wpmu admin is the only person who can add/delete profile fields.