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SOLUTION (finally)

Thanks @henrywright and @coffeywebdev for pointing me in the right direction. Here is what I ended up with.
1. Enable child theme and copy the BP register.php file to the child theme.
2. In the child theme’s style.css, I entered to remove the xprofile fields from the register.php page:
.editfield {
display: none;
}
3. In the child theme’s functions.php file I have this (again, reassign the xprofile fields ‘field_3’ and ‘field_4’ because of their position in the DOM:

add_action( ‘bp_signup_pre_validate’, ‘assign_username’ );

function assign_username(){
if ( isset( $_POST[‘first_name’] ) ) {
$_POST[‘field_3’] = $_POST[‘first_name’];
$_POST[‘field_4’] = $_POST[‘last_name’];
$_POST[‘signup_username’] = create_username();
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
echo $key . “: “;
echo $value;
echo “<br>”;
}
exit();
}
}

function create_username() {
$i = 0;
$username = $_POST[‘field_3’] . $_POST[‘field_4’];
while (username_exists( $username )) {
$username = $username . ++$a;
}
return $username;
}

I am simply creating a username from first name and last name and then start to append a number when inevitably someone with the same name registers. I need to add more validation on the username to ensure that it is <= 50 characters, but this finally worked for me.

Thanks again to the community for pointing me in the right direction!

Issue now is with the extra BP fields coming later in the DOM than my fields on my register.php. Even though I have the css set to display: none for the actual xprofile fields, my fields are not carrying through the $_POST values because display: none does not remove the fields from the DOM.

I guess I can try adding hidden fields after the xprofile fields and set them to the values being entered in my fields, but that seems kinda clumsy.

I added test code to check the $_POST values at where I can see the fields coming over as empty strings: https://pantest.centralus.cloudapp.azure.com/register/

Hi,
In this file: wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php i add this:

function buddydev_exclude_users_by_role( $args ) {
	//do not exclude in admin
	if( is_admin() && ! defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return $args;
	}
	
	$excluded = isset( $args['exclude'] )? $args['exclude'] : array();

	if( !is_array( $excluded ) ) {
		$excluded = explode(',', $excluded );
	}
	
$tab_role=array('administrator','subscriber','author','contributor','editor');
	foreach($tab_role as $k=>$role){
	//$role = ;//change to the role to be excluded
	$user_ids =  get_users( array( 'role' => $role ,'fields'=>'ID') );
	
	
	$excluded = array_merge( $excluded, $user_ids );
	}
	
	$args['exclude'] = $excluded;
	
	return $args;
}

So i exclude all role but i have custom role which users of this role are only can see they profiles in member page

@danbp
Thanks for the replay, Script to load xprofile list is working well, I also had state and city fields in my registraion form… Is there any script to achieve conditional selects ??? i mean if i select a country it should populate states belong to that country and if i select state from that list it should populate cities belong to that city only.

Thanks

Thanks for the replay, I already seen some tutorials… If we go with javascript we have to enter the values manually and assign it to a input tag and we call it using javascript/jquery with an ID, But I already added values in buddypress profile fields (Country Field). How can i use that values and auto suggest on frontend ??

@r-a-y I’m running:

Akismet
Alexa Certify
AmazoLinkenator
AMP
Select Audio player
Better WordPress Recent Comments
BP Profile Search
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Friends Only Activity Stream
BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type
CloudFlare
Co-Authors
Comment Rating Pro
Cookie Consent
Core Control
Delete Expired Transients
Edit Flow
Email Address Encoder
Enhanced Text Widget
Export Users to CSV
Featured Images in RSS w/ Size and Position
Gigaom New Relic
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms Polls Add-On
IFRAME Embed For YouTube
Jetpack by WordPress.com
MemberPress Business Edition
MemberPress MailChimp
Meta Slider
Post-Plugin Library
Recent Posts Widget Extended
Regenerate Thumbnails
Revision Control
Simple Lightbox
SSL Insecure Content Fixer
WangGuard
Widget CSS Classes
Wordpress Video Plugin
WP Crontrol
WP Missed Schedule
WP Resized Image Quality
WP-Ban
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yoast SEO

But I’m also running all of these on my dev server, and it works fine there.

I double check the nginx config

Hi again

i found the problem, but i do not have enough insight to buddypress to fix it.
file: wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-screens.php

                        if ( isset( $_POST['signup_profile_field_ids'] ) && !empty( $_POST['signup_profile_field_ids'] ) ) {

                                // Let's compact any profile field info into an array.
                                $profile_field_ids = explode( ',', $_POST['signup_profile_field_ids'] );

                                // Loop through the posted fields formatting any datebox values then validate the field.
                                foreach ( (array) $profile_field_ids as $field_id ) {
                                        if ( !isset( $_POST['field_' . $field_id] ) ) {
                                                if ( !empty( $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_day'] ) && !empty( $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_month'] ) && !empty( $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_year'] ) )
                                                        $_POST['field_' . $field_id] = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime( $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_day'] . $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_month'] . $_POST['field_' . $field_id . '_year'] ) );
                                        }

                                        // Create errors for required fields without values.
                                        if ( xprofile_check_is_required_field( $field_id ) && empty( $_POST[ 'field_' . $field_id ] ) && ! bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) )
                                                $bp->signup->errors['field_' . $field_id] = __( 'This is a required field', 'buddypress' );
                                }

                                // This situation doesn't naturally occur so bounce to website root.
                        }
                        # else {
                        #       bp_core_redirect( bp_get_root_domain() );
                        #}

on my page, signup_profile_field_ids (hidden field) does not exist on my reqistry page, and therefore it redirects using signup_profile_field_ids

commenting those 3 lines out, made it work for me.

Is this a bug or am i missing some settings?

Thanks, i found helpful plugin for solution.
Plugin Name:
BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

@shanebp
hi. tnx for answer and patience. got 5 more minutes? 🙂
i read and worked on what you said. and if i want to be honest, i could’t do anything special unfortunately.
now, i want to ask your opinion about this idea:
i’ve come up with the idea of hiding that field. (not email field), how?
with the use of if condition… (if it’s not empty show it. if it has data, hide it)!
——-
i’ve created a custom-meta with this code in theme functions:

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) )
	return false;
/* Copy and paste this line for additional fields. */
add_user_meta( $user_id, ‘person_relation’, 30318 );
update_usermeta( absint( $user_id ), 'person_relation', wp_kses_post( $_POST['person_relation'] ) );
update_user_meta( $user_id, 'person_relation', $_POST['person_relation'] );
}

and used it in my buddypress signup form, to get data from users. ok?
after what you said, i went to edit.php (copy to my theme buddypress folder…)
and added these codes. but it seems that they do not recieve/send data at all.
it looks like they are empty!! 😐
after <?php at the start,
i added :

global $user, $user_id;
$person_relation = get_the_author_meta( 'person_relation', $user->ID );
$user_id = get_current_user_id();

and in the <form> ,
i added this piece of code (not working)
then copied and changed the “save changes button”.
so there is 2 buttons. one is for my-custom-meta, and the other is for buddypress form.
buddypress edit page
if user writes the name and click save. the box/button, all should gone. and i have to see the data in Users admin panel.
but nothing is getting save… and i dont know where am i doing it wrong

<?php if( $person_relation == '' ): ?>
<tr>
<th><label for="person_relation">Invitor's Name</label></th>
<td>
<input type="text" name="person_relation" id="person_relation" value="<?php update_usermeta( $user_id, 'person_relation', $_POST['person_relation'] ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
<span class="description">Please enter your invitor's name.</span>
</td>
</tr>
<input type="hidden" id="userID" value="<?php echo $user_id ?>"/>
<div class="submit">
<input type="submit" name="profile-group-edit-submit" id="profile-group-edit-submit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Save Name', 'buddypress' ); ?> " />
</div>
<input type="hidden" name="person_relation" id="person_relation" value="<?php update_usermeta( $user_id, 'person_relation', $_POST['person_relation'] ); ?>" />
<?php add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' ); ?>
<?php add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' ); ?>
<?php do_action( 'xprofile_profile_field_data_updated'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

so sorry for long description. tnx for help.
any suggestions do you have?

i’ve managed to create a extra field by ID, and this is the function to save it.
it’s name is “person_relation”.

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
	if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) )
		return false;
	/* Copy and paste this line for additional fields. Make sure to change name '' to the field ID. */
	update_usermeta( $user_id, 'person_relation', $_POST['person_relation'] );
}

now
1) any suggestion on how should i make this box appear on group 1 ?
* or in the setting page?
and
2) how should i get the value of it? (it’s a text input)? i heard that i have to use “POST[]” method? is it the right way? and how?