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Get user ID (and custom field) outside of loop

RobFenech
Participant

@terydinho

12 years, 9 months ago

Hi all, I am really struggling today for some reason. What I want to do is this.

I have a CPT that is working perfectly with a custom taxonomy of County, users post up posts/events in a certain county. When a user signs up, they choose a County too. So the aim is to show all posts from within said users County.

I was going to do it like this:

`$args=array(
‘taxonomy’ => ‘counties’,
‘counties’ => ‘Essex’,
‘post_type’ => ‘matches’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 3
);

query_posts( $args ); ?>`

But how do I grab the user county? I tried using bp_member_profile_data – but that seems to get the latest user rather than who is logged in… any ideas?

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Boone Gorges
Keymaster

@boonebgorges

12 years, 9 months ago

The function you want is `xprofile_get_field_data()`. It takes two parameters: the field name/ID, and the user_id. So, for the logged in user,

`$county = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘County’, bp_loggedin_user_id() );`

RobFenech
Participant

@terydinho

12 years, 9 months ago

Boone, thank you so much! I have been tearing my hair out on this!!

Thanks mate

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