Custom fields for user profiles

Hi.

I have found an excellent developers plugin that allows you to create custom meta fields (in profiles, pages and posts) in a really powerful and easy way, by adding code to your functions php file in the theme.

You can even scope your custom fields, applying them to specific roles

I have tested this and it works great – however what I now want to do it add the custom plugin code to the relevant part of the S2 plugin so that the custom fields show up in the native S2 front-end profile management.

Can anyone tell me where to place the code to do this?

The reason for all this is so that I can create better structured meta data for profiles which I am using elsewhere.

Custom code example:

if ( function_exists( ‘slt_cf_register_box’) )
add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_custom_fields’ );

function register_my_custom_fields() {
slt_cf_register_box( array(
‘type’ => ‘user’,
‘title’ => ‘Extra fields’,
‘id’ => ‘extra-fields’,
‘context’ => ‘normal’,
‘priority’ => ‘default’,
‘fields’ => array(
array(
‘name’ => ‘seller-countries’,
‘label’ => ‘In which countries do you currently supply?’,
‘type’ => ‘checkboxes’,
‘scope’ => array( ‘subscriber’,’s2member level 2′ ),
‘options’ => array( ‘USA’ => ‘USA’, ‘Canada’ => ‘Canada’, ‘France’ => ‘France’ , ‘Switzerland’ => ‘Switzerland’ , ‘Austria’ => ‘Austria’ , ‘Italy’ => ‘Italy’ , ‘Andorra’ => ‘Andorra’ , ‘Bulgaria’ => ‘Bulgaria’ , ‘Solvakia’ => ‘Solvakia’ , ‘Sweden’ => ‘Sweden’ , ‘Finalnd’ => ‘Finalnd’ , ‘Japan’ => ‘Japan’ , ‘Russia’ => ‘Russia’ , ‘Norway’ => ‘Norway’ , ‘Argentina’ => ‘Argentina’ , ‘Chile’ => ‘Chile’ , ‘Solvenia’ => ‘Solvenia’ , ‘Other’ => ‘Other’ )
)
)
));
}

Hi Simon,

s2Member stores its custom registration fields (Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields) in its own way in the database, so simply “adding” to those isn’t going to be straight-forward.

However, if you simply want to display your custom fields alongside the front-end s2Member profile fields (i.e. when using the s2Member-Profile shortcode), then you may want to look at s2member/includes/classes/profile-in.inc.php.

HEY, thanks

I think it will work if I simply display them alongside as I dont need these fields in registration.

Is my code above ok to work out of the box or will I need to modify it at all, within the profile-in.inc.php ?

joe

to be clear – I need my fields to be manageable in users front end profile (which is an s2 screen)

joe

Hi Joe,

The code above only registers the custom fields and adds data to them; it doesn’t display the custom fields on the front-end, so you’d definitely need to use different code for that.

you re right

it displays the fields in the backend profile management – but I guess WP is providing that

i could just lift code from WP ?

or use some of the plugin functions to add editable fields to front end profiles

joe

Can you help ?

I have managed to use the plugin: Developer’s custom fields, to register a custom field for an s2member role:

The new field now shows in the back-end edit-user screen for only that user role.

GREAT

I need to get this new field to be editable in the s2member front-end user profile management screen.

The answer is here in the plugin’s documentation, but I am not experienced enough to work out how to do it

http://sltaylor.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/slt-custom-fields/docs/

I know I have to edit the s2member plugin here:

s2member/includes/classes/profile-in.inc.php

But I need someone to tell me what code from the plugin documentation to add to the above php file

Help ?

joe

Hi Simon,

As per our support policy, we cannot assist with custom coding or integrating with 3rd party plugins (please see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope).