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How do I echo the field’s data?

The line “echo xprofile_get_field_data( $field_name_or_id [, optional $user_id] );” only displays “echo xprofile_get_field_data( $field_name_or_id [, optional $user_id] );”

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data('2'); ?>

would work, where 2 is the id of the field.

The next step would be to add some code checking first to see whether there is any data for that field. If true, print the data, if not echo ‘(no data found)’.

Doesn’t work for me. Field id ‘2’ is supposed to be company name in my installation, but this in the members_loop.php only displays name and last active:

<h3><a href="<?php bp_the_site_member_link() ?>"><?php bp_the_site_member_name() ?></a></h3>

<p><?php do_action( 'bp_core_directory_members_content' ) ?></p>

<p><?php echo xprofile_get_field_data('2'); ?></p>

<label><?php bp_the_site_member_last_active() ?></label>

Should I use bp_the_site_member_something(‘2’)?

Thanks for the additional information. I’ve tried this in members-loop:

<?php if ( $company = xprofile_get_field_data('Company') ) : ?>

<p><?php echo $company ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>

and this

<p><?php echo xprofile_get_field_data('Company'); ?></p>

Still get nothing with either version…

Excellent, that works very nicely. Thanks John James Jacoby!

Could something like this become part of the core? When you have the name of a member, it should be easy to add associated data. This function makes it a lot easier.

Edit: The function probably needs to be expanded a bit. I get these slashes (escapes?) in the output:

Pandora's Box

I’ll look into that when I have time…

or maybe something with unserialize&stripslashes?

I found this in reference to the code mentioned above:

* xprofile_format_profile_field()<br />

955   *<br />

956   * Formats a profile field according to its type. [ TODO: Should really be moved to filters ]<br />

957   *<br />

958   * @package BuddyPress Core<br />

959   * @param $field_type The type of field: datebox, selectbox, textbox etc<br />

960   * @param $field_value The actual value<br />

961   * @uses bp_format_time() Formats a time value based on the WordPress date format setting<br />

962   * @return $field_value The formatted value<br />

963   */<br />

964  function xprofile_format_profile_field( $field_type, $field_value ) {<br />

965      if ( !isset($field_value) || empty( $field_value ) )<br />

966          return false;<br />

967<br />

968      $field_value = bp_unserialize_profile_field( $field_value );<br />

969<br />

970      if ( 'datebox' == $field_type ) {<br />

971          $field_value = bp_format_time( $field_value, true );<br />

972      } else {<br />

973          $content = $field_value;<br />

974          $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);<br />

975          $field_value = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);<br />

976      }<br />

977<br />

978      return stripslashes( stripslashes( $field_value ) );<br />

979  }

and this

function bp_unserialize_profile_field( $value ) {

529 }

I wanted to do the same thing as h4x3d and tried his dirty trick which works..

Anyhow here is how I did it (dunno if this is less dirty)

$platforms = xprofile_get_field_data('Plattformen');

$data = xprofile_format_profile_field('checkbox', $platforms);

echo $data;

This works great! But I am wondering if there is a way to have it call the value depending on the user that is currently logged-in.

I thought something like this might work… <?php echo bp_loggedinuser_xprofile_get_field_data(’10’); ?> but no such luck.

Any ideas?