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After taking a look at how BP does it my questions 1 and 2 have been answered. Now facing a new but related problem:

When I redirect the user back to the edit profile page to display the “Too many characaters have been entered” message – any new text the user may have entered into the input fields is lost.

For example – the max characater limit for location is 10

1. Location value is currently: London
2. The user updates the location field to: London, United Kingdom
3. The field validation kicks in – the page is refreshed with error message displayed “Too many characters”
4. Location value reads: London

So, you can see the illegal value the user has entered “London, United Kingdom” has been lost. My aim is to redisplay the illegal value so the user can modify it under 10 characters.

Perhaps location isn’t the best example. Imagine if the user has written an about me paragraph which is over the character limit – on clicking submit the page refreshes and they are told they’ve entered too many characters. Their old about me text is displayed and all their new hard work has been lost.

Hi @danbp, thanks for the link. That isn’t quite what I’m after. It is more to do with limiting the length of what is echo’d to screen where as I’m trying to validate and error handle the data which is captured.

The Code from “SOLVED: Limit Members Loop by Profile Fields” seem easy to implement. I added this to my function.php

// to exclude only defined roles in the Buddypress Members LOOP

function exclude_by_role($exclude_roles) {

$memberArray = array();

if (bp_has_members()) :
while (bp_members()) : bp_the_member();
$user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
$user_role = $user->roles[0];
foreach ($exclude_roles as $exclude_role) {
if ($exclude_role==$user_role) {
array_push($memberArray, $user->ID);
break;
}
}
endwhile;
endif;

$theExcludeString=implode(",",$memberArray);

return $theExcludeString;
}

I then added this to my member-loop.php

<? $excluded_roles = array ('administrator', 'author', 'subscriber'); // this can be any roles you have set up
	if (bp_has_members( 'exclude=' . exclude_by_role($excluded_roles) . '&' . bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) : ?>

Unfortunately, it still is not excluding any of the specified roles. I took a look at the second example, but not sure where to put the code. Any suggestions?

Sorry code I posted back was outdated.

<?php
$bpProfileField = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Services Required', $user_id_from_email, $multi_format = 'comma' );
if ( empty ( $bpProfileField) ):
?>
<div class="profile_fields"><b>Services Provided:</b> <span><?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Services Provided' , $user_id_from_email ) ?></span></div>
<?php else: ?>
<p><b>Services Required:</b> <?php echo $bpProfileField; ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<br>

Thanks for the reply Shane. My apologies for the delay in responding myself but I just got back on working on this issue this weekend here.

One field I am working on right now involves displaying either Services Required or Services Provided as you can see in the code below. Depending on the type of user you are will determine which field you have filled in thus which field will display on the user profile. Unfortunately my PHP is pretty weak thus the foreach loop you mentioned has me scratching my head. The code below does what I want with the exception of it displaying horizontally instead of vertically. I am hoping you would be able to give me some detailed direction in what way to go for the PHP challenged guy that I am lol.

<?php
$bpProfileField = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Services Required', $user_id_from_email, $multi_format = 'comma' );
if ( empty ( $bpProfileField) ):
?>
<div class="profile_fields"><b>Services Provided:</b> <span><?php bp_profile_field_data( 'field=Services Provided' );?></span></div>
<?php else: ?>
<p><b>Services Required:</b> <?php echo $bpProfileField; ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

When you update an profile field, it is first deleted, then re-created. I’m sure of that, after looking the BuddyPress code.

Why the BuddyPress works like this ? How to prevent this issue, to keep the same ID when the field is updated ?

I just realise that I didn’t say Hi, to the community! Mistake fixed! I’m sorry.

Well well. I finally found, and I’m surprised the answer didn’t come from this thread.

It is quite simple, in fact. Just need to use the function:

xprofile_set_field_data($field, $member-id,  $value);

So, with a simple form sending those three values, one can update a single field anywhere. As I wanted to let members update their fields directly from their member profile ( without using the very bad and obscure edit.php ), I put a form and the function in the member-header.php

My form and function updates three fields.

Here is the function, somewhere in the member-header.php file:

<?php
function updatedemo() {
    $id = $_POST['id-member'];
    $liendemo = $_POST['liendemo'];
    $champdemo = $_POST['champdemo'];
    $titre = $_POST['titre'];
    $champtitre = $_POST['champtitre'];
    $description = $_POST['description'];
    $champdescription = $_POST['champdescription'];

    xprofile_set_field_data($champdemo, $id,  $liendemo);
    xprofile_set_field_data($champdescription, $id,  $description);
    xprofile_set_field_data($champtitre, $id,  $titre);
}
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
    updatedemo();
    
}
?>

And here is the form:

<?php if ( bp_is_my_profile() ) { ?>
	<form method="post" action="<?php bp_displayed_user_link(); ?>">

	<?php if ( xprofile_get_field_data('25') == "" ) { ?>
		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-01.jpg"><br>

	<?php }; if ( !xprofile_get_field_data('25') == "" ) { ?>
		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-01-1.jpg"><br>
	<?php }; ?>

		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-02.jpg"><br><input type="text" name="titre" size="40"><br>
		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-03.jpg"><br><input type="text" name="liendemo" size="80"><br>
		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-04.jpg"><br>
		<img src="http://www.cinemacontact.com/fr/images/form-demo-05.jpg"><br>
		<textarea style="width:400px; height:75px;" name="description"></textarea>
		
		<input type="hidden" name="champdemo" value="lien-4">
		<input type="hidden" name="champdescription" value="description-4">
		<input type="hidden" name="champtitre" value="titre-4">
		<input type="hidden" name="id-member" value="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_id(); ?>"><br>
		<input type="submit" value="Envoyer" name="submit">
	</form>
	<?php }; ?></h3>

And this actually works.

Maybe I didn’t ask correctly at the beginning of the thread. All I wanted to know was:
« Oh, Martin, there is, indeed, a function to update xprofile fields: xprofile_set_field_data(), don’t need to start with edit.php file. »

🙂

@Jobster123: I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean.

The success of a directory does not depend on unique content but on whether you can entice users to register profiles. In addition, the success of the directory depends on how easy it is for visitors to search the directory and find the user profiles that fulfils their need. This means that a directory system needs to be easy to use for users who want to register but who aren’t computer literate or who don’t have time to figure out how to beautify their profiles beyond that which is necessary.

Of course, it would be great if Google could index the directory, but the strength of the directory lies not in the “description” field of each profile page, but in the way all the factual fields have been set up… because those are the things that visitors will search.

Samuel (ugcheleuce)

@danbp Thank you man, this is amazing!

It didn’t do exactly what i wanted, so i made a couple of tweaks. I changed the filter so the messages were added to the profile only, not the member header meta. I also made the statement into elseif, with an array, so it would do what i needed it to, ie show up only if both fields were empty. Here’s my code. It is probably a bit messy, but it does the trick:

function bpfr_my_message_on_profile () {	
	
        if ( bp_is_my_profile()) :
	
	if ( !$data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=About' ) ) : 
	
	echo '<p class="enter-info">Please tell the community a little bit about yourself by filling out the form on the edit tab above.</p>';	
	
	elseif ( !$data = bp_get_profile_field_data(array( field=>'vimeo',field=>'youtube') ) ) : 
	
	echo '<p class="enter-info">There is nothing here! Spruce up your profile by adding content via the edit tab above.</p>';
	endif;
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_profile_content', 'bpfr_my_message_on_profile' );

Thanks for all your help. You rock!