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Social media fields as icons (not working)

a608237
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@a608237

5 years, 7 months ago

I’ve been trying to follow examples to show social media fields as a linked icon for some time (including examples in this forum) and it just hasn’t been happening, and I dont know why.

For example, with facebook:

$fb_page = xprofile_get_field_data(‘Facebook’, $UserID);

if($fb_page) { ?>
< a href=”http:facebook.com/”<? php echo $fb_page ? >/” target=”_blank” title=”Facebook”>HI</ a> <? php
}

This code was just to test if I could even just hyperlink text to facebook.com. But it is not working. Instead, the following is output on the front:

myFacebook.Field/” target=”_blank” title=”Facebook”>HI

What is going wrong?

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shanebp
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@shanebp

5 years, 7 months ago

Please use the code button when sharing code.

You didn’t provide any context for where you are making the call to xprofile_get_field_data.
Is it in a function? If so, what is that function hooked to?

Are you aware that there are 3 parameters ?
xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id = 0, $multi_format = 'array' );

So perhaps your issue is related to the return of an array.
Try: $fb_page = xprofile_get_field_data('Facebook', $UserID, 'comma' );

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