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Hello, im going to tell you a quick easy way to do step number 1.
Create a field called School or w.e you want to make it and make a drop down field of all the schools that you can think of.

I would also download buddyprress-better-directory ( it may not scale well with your theme depending on what theme you are using )

so now onto question number 2. As I said for your answer for number one, using the drop down menu for the schools will make it easier to search rather then having the members type in their school. as far as searching for UNC and University of North Carolina, Im sure the search would list all the UNC first, then list the University of North Carolina,

I would also suggest installing s2Members (plugin) and follow the steps to help make your buddypress/wordpress more secure,

@vuiet914

Best of Luck,
Ps, this is just a suggestion and it really isn’t a FULL answer to your questions.

@jaimebib nope still no luck for me I have basically given up on this plugin since I cannot seem to reach the author of the plugin..
@Marcella any news on the idea you had for developing the plugin?

I’d approach this a different way –

something like:
`
$match_ids = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT user_id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = [whatever the field_id is for State] AND value = [whatever value you want to find] “);
`

$match_ids will be a simple array.
So loop thru the array and create a comma separated string out of the ids.
Then pass the string to bp_has_members() using ‘include’

something like
`
//$get_these_members is the id string you created
$get_these_members = ‘include=’ . substr($get_these_members, 0, -1); //trim the last comma

if ( bp_has_members( $get_these_members ) )
`

That way you could search for any value on any profile field.
Your approach might work, but… yikes.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/

i’m looking for the same things to do with my site.
did you find a solution for that?

@bojan85 tried to work with this plugin aswell but seems non functional..anybody involved in developing for bp who knows if this is even possible to do? Seems like a very basic function that should be included…

OMG, this is almost what i need do you already have it working @davidveldt ?

what i need is:

you have the registrationform, the only things i want visible is Name and Email. and then i would like to have a selectbox with 2 options: Company or Student.

When you register as a company and then login you go to the company profile side. if you are a student then you go to the student profile side. The 2 profile have different profile groups to fill out.

how can i do this?

I would suggest creating a new profile field group for this sort of field, and put some logic into the appropriate theme template to not show fields in that group.

I’d be interested in this as well.

This is exactly what I have been trying to find an answer to. No one has seemed to provide a straight answer but this goes a long way. Thanks guys. I think I will reference this and work on this problem myself, too, and provide some feedback.

I think (not sure!) that one of the ways you can stop spam is to put required fields on the profile that utilize human input. Requiring fields like favorite color, or something where people have to actually input something may be helpful to slow down spam. At least, that’s a theory. Anyone have anything like that or provide some feedback on this theory?

Go with Paul’s second suggestion, you could make it a simple text input and instruct the user to add items comma separated and then grab the field and run an explode function on the comma to get a list you can loop over and display.

I don’t know about date range, but for your dropdown box, you would have to manually build that list of universities yourself.

The easiest would be for you to create multiple profile fields (job 1, job 2…) and prompt users to leave blank if not appropriate.

Another approach is to use a text area (one job per line), and then customise the output of this particular field to display how you wanted it to.

xprofile wasn’t built with the idea of letting *users* (vs admins) creating new profile fields. I think trying to do this would be full of difficulty so I’d recommend against it.