Purely Genius Way to Add Custom Profile Fields
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Everyone has been asking about how to add custom fields for profiles. I too have wanted to do some customization to the profile, but without having to modify the core or profile source. Here is what I did to make a wicked simple mp3 player for the site I’m working on.
Step 1, Create a group, and a few sub fields for that group. For this example it was “Audio Details”, then I created a sub field “favorite Band of All time” and “Favorite Album of All Time”.
Step 2. Write some code, I created a simple filter, based on a post by Andy, http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=584#post-2599 which replaced the output of the profile field with that of the mp3 widget.
Step 3. Because I didn’t want it to replace every profile field, and this is the magic, I wrote a 2nd filter, which looks at the group name, and turns on and off filtering, for different purposes. Since I didn’t want url linking filtering adding to the field value, I turned that off, and turned on my mp3 widget filter. The next time the group runs, it turns back on the default filters and removes my mp3 filters.
Step 4. Enjoy
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/members/bradmkjr/
If you have any question, feel free to ask. Also for those who may want some custom version for their own site, I’m willing to release the code as beerware.
Thanks,
Brad
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I’ll try to set a little plugin or something later, but for the moment you can follow this method, it’s the Fishbowl81’s code adapted for ebay editor kit:
Edit your bp-xprofile-filters.php by placing the following code after the custom buddypress filters:
/* Display ebay listings field */
function bp_profile_ebay_display( $field_value
"", $field_type = "", $field_id = "" ) {{ // clean up input
return "<script language='JavaScript' src='http://lapi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?EKServer&ai=lwa%7Bfwvw%7Esa%7Cwsyw%60&bdrcolor=CCCCCC&cid=0&eksize=1&encode=UTF-8&endcolor=FF0000&endtime=n&fbgcolor=FFFFFF&fntcolor=000000&fs=0&hdrcolor=FFFFFF&hdrimage=1&hdrsrch=n&img=y&lnkcolor=75179C&logo=3&num=5&numbid=n&paypal=n&popup=n&prvd=9&r0=4&shipcost=n&si=".addslashes($field_value)."&sid=BP&siteid=0&sort=MetaEndSort&sortby=endtime&sortdir=asc&srchdesc=n&tbgcolor=FFFFFF&tlecolor=FFFFFF&tlefs=0&tlfcolor=000000&toolid=10004&track=5336248810&watchcat=63850&width=350'></script>";
}
}
function bp_profile_ebay_groups( $group_name
"") {if($group_name == "My Ebay listings"){
remove_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2);
add_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'bp_profile_ebay_display', 2, 3);
}else{
add_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2, 3);
remove_filter( 'bp_the_profile_field_value', 'bp_profile_ebay_display', 2);
}
return $group_name;
}
add_filter( 'bp_the_profile_group_name', 'bp_profile_ebay_groups', 10, 1 );
Also it depend of your css code but it can be useful to put this in your member theme’s stylesheet (base or your custom stylesheet).
td.data table td{
margin:0px;padding:0px;
Then create a profile field group named “My Ebay listings” and a profile field like ebay username and you’re done!
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