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How to retrieve database info to be used as a drop down list for profile fields?

jokyfoot
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@jokyfoot

9 years, 2 months ago

I want to add user profile fields such as:

References: (Where the user can choose from a drop down list of existing buddypress members)
Places Worked: (Where the user chooses from drop down a list of existing locations in the database)

Is this possible?

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danbp
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@danbp

9 years, 2 months ago

You can add custom option fields for References and Places Worked:

Profile → Edit

Not sure that adding a memberlist as drop down is very clever. What if you get a community of hundreds of members ?

To get database info, see here: (that’s a common WP task)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

jokyfoot
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@jokyfoot

9 years, 2 months ago

True, I’ve realized that to do what I’m trying to do, it wouldn’t be too hard to achieve by simply wrapping an html link tag around each field options.

The problem I have now is that, each profile field link automatically turns into a members/?s=fieldoption link.

If someone can tell me how to bypass that I think I’ll be set

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