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By “easy”, I meant “There must be simple functions for posting things to the database; but I don’t know them”. I often see people answering to questions with pages and pages of code from outer space, so I thought my little question would be a very simple one….

Well.. Let’s make my question “less general”.

I want to get rid of the bottom tabs of the member profile page. Still, I want the members to be able to edit their profile. I want to style that directly in the member-header.php page.

I want that kind of thing:

<div><?php 
if ( bp_is_my_profile() )
  echo "Hi there, since it's your profile, you can edit the value of field number 46";
  echo '<form id="formtochangefield46" name="updatefield46" onSubmit=" " action=" "  method="post" >
  <div>New value</p></div>
  <div><input type="text" id="updatefield46" name="field46" size="20" style="width:150px;"   maxlength="150" value="">
  </div>
  <div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></div>
  </form>';
endif;
$embed = wp_oembed_get( xprofile_get_field_data('46'), array( ‘width’ => 400 ) );
echo $embed;
?><br></div>

I guess there must already exist wp functions to… call the database and update a field from a form’s submitted values… I mean, how does one creates a custom register page ? It must be the same functions after all…

I hope my question is more precise… And sorry for my english, I don’t really speak it.

If i hide the bottom tabs and the admin bar, each user can’t modify their profile.

So I guess your answer is « No, there is no simple function to post values in the database ».

Thanks anyways..

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. »

🙂