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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!

Thanks @henrywright-1 and @shanebp

Works a treat 🙂

Hmm ok thanks @henrywright-1

On the front end I get:

item-1 £500k-£2m
item-2 £2m+

The HTML generated is –

<div id="size500">        
 item-1        £500k-£2m        		
</div>    
<div id="size500">        
 item-2        £2m+        
</div>    

How can I make those divs unique?

Quick question @henrywright-1 – any way to give each of those that are spat out a unique id?

Or do they have to have the same HTML around them?

Ideally, each of the items are wrapped different id – e.g.

<div id="size500">£500K</div>

@henrywright-1 it’s added in /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup – Profile Fields under the Users menu in WP Admin.

Your code works, thanks..!

So I can add html into those spaces, and each item is now separated by html…I think that should do it. Thanks so much for the support Team Buddypress 🙂

Hi @henrywright-1

Thanks for the idea.

Pasting that in (exactly as it is) doesn’t return anything for Budget.

How do I add the HTML I want into:

        // put whatever you want here

Cheers

Ian

Not sure it’s a custom hack…

In WordPress admin, I go to Profile Fields

Then, I have three profile groups in there. The third one is where this budget field sits.

It’s only available to certain user types, which is why it’s in a separate profile group.

However, as far as I know @bphelp – none of this is custom or a hack, this is standard BP functionality? Then using this snippet to show the output on the front end:

	<div id="profileProjectSize">
		<?php 
		$data=bp_get_member_profile_data(array('field'=>'Budget'));
		echo $data; 
		?>
	</div>	

That’s what is strange @bphelp – when I inspect element in Chrome, there are simply no tags around the checkboxes on view profile: