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Everyone has been asking about how to add custom fields for profiles. I too have wanted to do some customization to the profile, but without having to modify the core or profile source. Here is what I did to make a wicked simple mp3 player for the site I’m working on.
Step 1, Create a group, and a few sub fields for that group. For this example it was “Audio Details”, then I created a sub field “favorite Band of All time” and “Favorite Album of All Time”.
Step 2. Write some code, I created a simple filter, based on a post by Andy, http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=584#post-2599 which replaced the output of the profile field with that of the mp3 widget.
Step 3. Because I didn’t want it to replace every profile field, and this is the magic, I wrote a 2nd filter, which looks at the group name, and turns on and off filtering, for different purposes. Since I didn’t want url linking filtering adding to the field value, I turned that off, and turned on my mp3 widget filter. The next time the group runs, it turns back on the default filters and removes my mp3 filters.
Step 4. Enjoy
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/members/bradmkjr/
If you have any question, feel free to ask. Also for those who may want some custom version for their own site, I’m willing to release the code as beerware.
Thanks,
Brad
lol! OK, I just did a clean install (1and1). Same symptom…tables not created. Here are the relevant fields from wp_sitemeta:
bp-activity-version 1.0b1
bp-core-version 1.0b1
bp-xprofile-base-group-name Base
bp-xprofile-fullname-field-name Full Name
bp-xprofile-fullname-conversion 1
bp-xprofile-version 1.0b1
bp-messages-version 1.0b1
bp-groups-version 1.0b1
bp-friends-version 1.0b1
bp-blogs-first-install 1
bp-blogs-version 1.0b1
P.S. Actually I liked the lady floating in space with the bowl on her head. I have exotic tastes.
Here’s another snippet. This is the first error log entry that appears after invoking BP:
[suexec 11345] kundenfile = 1, mustkundenfile = 1, file = /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php, cgifeature = 350
[suexec 11345] Chdir to /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans
[suexec 11345] Executing PHP5 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 0 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 0 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_groups WHERE slug = ‘public’ made by group_exists
WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT gm.group_id FROM wp_bp_groups_groupmeta gm, wp_bp_groups g WHERE g.id = gm.group_id AND g.status != ‘hidden’ AND gm.meta_key = ‘total_member_count’ ORDER BY CONVERT(gm.meta_value, SIGNED) DESC made by get_popular
[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’
[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’
[suexec 11347] started: /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec dummywwwexecuser ftpusers php5exe
[suexec 11347] REDIRECT_STATUS: 200
[suexec 11347] doing chroot
Can you tell I’m desperate?
Topic: Pre-Built Profiles
The prebuilt language, country and state fields don’t work on my install. I’m assuming that they create profile questions with pre-populated answers. When I try to ‘Add’ them I get this error:
Wrong parameter count for fgetcsv() in …/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php on line 288
I am a newbie. Am I missing something?
User Profiles
• Multi-part profiles
The user profile page is perhaps the most important part of your social network. Along with the user’s profile data, all of the user’s photos, blog entries, comments, groups, friends, statistics, and other items can be displayed here. This page is often used as a point of contact between users, so various options are available to viewers (such as “Send Messageâ€, “Add Friendâ€, “Block Userâ€, and so forth). As the admin, you decide what goes on your users’ profiles.
• Customizable profile fields
The information that your users will provide about themselves will define your social network. Thusly, you should create profile fields that make users provide information that is relavant to your social network’s unique theme. For example, if you are building a social network for businesspeople, you might create fields like “Current Employerâ€, “Positionâ€, “Referencesâ€, etc. Similarly, if you are creating a dating network, you might create fields like “Heightâ€, “Weightâ€, “Eye Colorâ€, and so forth. Profile fields can be one of several types: Text fields, pull-down boxes, multi-line text areas, radio buttons, dates, etc.
• Dependent profile fields
If you create a pull-down box or radio button profile field, you can give it one or more dependent profile fields. For example, if your pull-down box profile field is named “Marital Statusâ€, it might have possible values such as “Single†and “Marriedâ€. By creating a dependent field named “To†for the “Married†value, users that select “Married†can specify who they are married to.
• Regex field validation
Each profile field that you create can be given its own regular expression. If the data provided by the user does not match this expression, you can choose to display an error message of your choice. This ensures that users are inputting their profile data in the exact format you want.
• Keyword links
If enabled, some profile fields will be “linked, separated by commas.†This means that whatever data the user provides in these fields will be separated by commas and linked to browse pages. For example, if you create a field called “My Favorite Music†and a user enters “classical, jazz, soulâ€, each of those words will be linked on the user’s profile page. Then, when a viewer clicks “jazzâ€, they are taken to a page that lists all other users that have listed “jazz†in their “My Favorite Music†field.
• Birthday fields
Date fields on your users’ profiles can be set to “birthday modeâ€, which allows you to calculate the user’s age. With some minor modifications, you could use this to notify users of upcoming birthdays.
• Personal photos (avatars)
If allowed, users can easily upload a photo of themselves, which is automatically sized down and used as their personal photo (also known as an avatar). This is displayed on their profile, in search results, when they send a message, and on many other areas of your social network.
• Profile privacy
If allowed, users can select from several privacy levels when managing their profile. This limits who can view and write comments on their profile. You, the admin, can decide what privacy options are available to your users.
• Comments
If allowed, users can post comments on each other’s profiles. This is an excellent way to encourage user interaction. If an inappropriate or unwanted content is posted, the receiving user can delete it from his or her profile. Users also have the ability to choose who can post comments on their profile (if allowed by you, the admin).
• Custom CSS styles
If allowed, users can insert their own custom CSS styles to give their profiles a more personalized appearance.
Network Structure & Customizability
• Subnetworks
Your social network has the ability to organize users into “subnetworks†based on profile information they have in common with each other. You can use this to limit access and privacy between subnetworks, display subnetwork-specific content in your templates, or to simply organize your users. For example, you might want your social network to be comprised of two subnetworks: “Males†and “Femalesâ€. Or, perhaps you might want to split these up into “Males In Californiaâ€, “Males Outside Californiaâ€, “Females In Californiaâ€, “Females Outside Californiaâ€. This is particularly useful because you can show different content (or advertisements) to users based on what subnetwork they are in. This allows you to serve them information or ads that are specifically relevant to their interests or personal characteristics.
• Several friendship structures
You can select from four distinct friendship structures: 1) Nobody can invite anyone to become friends, 2) Anybody can invite anyone to become friends, 3) Only people within the same subnetwork can become friends, and 4) Users can only invite their friends’ friends (second-level friends) to become their friends. With some minor customization, other structures can be implemented quite easily.
• One-way or two-way friendships
As the admin, you can decide if users have one-way or two-way friendships. Example: User A adds User B to his friend list. With a one-way friendship framework, User B is User A’s friend, but User A is not User B’s friend. With a two-way friendship framework, User B is User A’s friend and User A is User B’s friend.
• Verified or unverified friendships
As the admin, you can choose whether or not users will have to confirm friendship requests. Example: User A requests to become friends with User B. With a verified friendships framework, the two users will not become friends until User B confirms the friendship. With an unverified friendship framework, the two users will become friends immediately.
• Friendship types (titles)
As the admin, you can create a list of friendship types for users to pick when describing their relationships with their friends. Example: Your friendship type list may be something like “Co-workerâ€, “Significant Otherâ€, “Acquaintanceâ€, “Close Friendâ€, “Familyâ€, and so forth. Users can pick from these when they add new friends or edit the details of their relationships with their friends. If you wish, you can also allow users to enter in their own friendship type instead of picking from your list.
• Friendship explanations
As the admin, you can allow users to type in a detailed explaination of their relationships with each of their friends.
• Public/private sections
As the admin, you can easily make portions of the social network available to the public or registered users only.
• Custom privacy levels
As the admin, you can decide what privacy levels your users can choose from when they decide who can view (or post comments on) their profiles, blogs, groups, albums, and so forth.
• Signup by admin invitation
As the admin, you can choose to allow users to signup only if you have invited them. This is an effective way to build a small, exclusive social network.
• Signup by user invitation
As the admin, you can choose to allow users to signup only if they have been invited by an existing user or an admin. You can even give each user a limited number of invitations to send out. By limiting signups in this way, invitations can become “valuable,†which is a known method of achieving viral growth.
• Customizable signup process
As the admin, you can decide what will take place during the new user signup process. You decide what fields they must fill out (and which are required), whether they are asked to upload a photo, whether they are prompted to invite other people, and so forth.
• Email messages
Your social network sends emails to your users when they do different things, like signup, receive friend requests, request their lost password, etc. These email messages are all customizable – you can easily replace the default messages with your own.
Frontend, Look & Feel
• Global CSS styles
A single CSS stylesheet is used to set the colors, fonts, and other styles of your entire social network. This makes global changes to the look and feel of your social network easy!
• Multi-language support
All of the text on your social network is stored in a single language file, which makes translation simple.
• Search engine friendly URLs
As the admin, you can switch between standard (dynamic) or search engine friendly (static) URLs. This applies to the URLs of your users’ profile pages, albums, blogs, groups, etc.
What is the point of enabling a user’s ability to go to/modify their profile in the dashboard (where many more fields – 1st Name, last name, etc are avail) as BP seems to not make sue of and it could only serve to confuse the uninformed user.
bp just relies on the mu registration and login stuff wardeh. It adds a few fields by hooking some wp things to add extra profile info but it relies on the settings in site admin > options for ‘allow new registrations’. Thems the standard options in mu. Anything else is a mod or plugin.
If it works for mu (the moderation plugin you found) then it works for mu/bp. Any mu or wp plugin should work for ya. Unless there is some bizarre conflict with bp which I haven’t run into yet.
bp is just another mu plugin like all the rest. Well, more wildly cool and useful than all the rest, but it’s still YAMP. (Yet Another Mu Plugin)
Topic: Profile Fields Style
where can we change the style of the extra profile fields? “the color and width of input, textarea ..etc and thanks
BR
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