Get custom profile field values

Augh, help

I have spent hours trawling the S2 support forums and Codex for an answer but my head is hurting a great deal now.

I am trying to create front-end user Profiles (not editable) read-only – so other members can view a members key profile data.

I am editing a WP theme template (author.php), adding custom php code to get profile data for a specific user (passed as a GET parameter – /?author=6)

I need to get s2member custom profile field data and print it into the page – some of the custom fields are multi-option checkboxes.

Can anyone give me the code to do this ?

Thanks

joe

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Hi Simon,

Extracting s2Member Custom Profile Field data via PHP is possible, but it’s not going to be pretty. Please see this thread for more information.

Thanks Raam

I had already read that thread – its not really aimed at what I am trying to achieve

Or, to put it another way, it relates to a method of searching users for custom fields and I am not clever enough to work out how to extract from it the information I need to:

Print/echo data from user meta fields (using an author ID)

I have tried this:

(it breaks the page)

and this:

(it returns ‘Array’)

buyer_country_usa is a multi-option checkbox field

Cheers

Joe

oops

first code snippet:

$user_data = get_userdata($user_id);
echo $user_data['wp_lss2member_custom_fields']['buyer_country_usa'];

second code snippet:

echo get_user_field('buyer_country_usa', $theUserID);

ps – I have an unusual database table prefix

Hi Simon,

I understand the frustration in working with the Custom Registration field data within the database and we’re working to improve the way that information is stored in future versions.

As per our support policy, we unfortunately cannot assist with custom coding (please see s2Member® » Support Policy » Outside Scope). If you’re not comfortable working with PHP, we recommend hiring a PHP developer via jobs.wordpress.net.

I understand but if you keep user meta data in a serialised array you could help me to extract that data in a meaningful way – that’s after all, at least partly what the support forums are about…no ?

I have posted some custom code that has made an attempt to get the data I need but is clearly not the full solution.

What I am asking for is help completing what I have attempted to start myself. This is consistent with other posts where users have subsequently had a good level of support for their custom coding.

If you don’t want to help me can you ask Jason to post me an answer, as I am not aware that an answer to this specific question exists anywhere at this time in your support forums.

If it does, simply point me to it

Thanks

Simon, this function I wrote some time ago may help you displaying the s2Member custom fields. http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16582#p16582

I hope it helps. :)

That’s awesome, thanks Cristian.

Well what do you know:

A) the info already existed
B) you do help people to do things like this in the forums

cheers – I’ll post something back when I have a working solution

Glad it helped. :)

Yeah, the custom fields can be a bit frustrating when you start using them in PHP, since they’re in a serialized array. We’re aware that it’s not optimum and we’ll have this solved soon with the coming major update of the plugin.

By the way, I just remembered having seen a function in the codex that’d do something similar, and it has the same name as the function I posted last year. Jason told me he had added it to s2Member, but I had forgotten.

Please read about it here and play with it to see what the output is like:

http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_get_s2member_custom_fields%28%29

Cristian, is there a bug in this code – it causes my page to go blank when I include it like this (with a user ID)

function get_s2member_custom_fields($user_id = $theUserID) {
    $return = array();
    $user = get_user_option('s2member_custom_fields', $user_id);

    foreach ((array)json_decode($GLOBALS['WS_PLUGIN__']['s2member']['o']['custom_reg_fields'], true) as $field) {
        if (isset($user[$field['id']])) {
            $return[$field['id']]['label'] = $field['label'];

            if (empty($field['options']))
                $return[$field['id']]['value'] = $user[$field['id']];
            else {
                $field['options'] = strpos($field['options'], "\n") ? explode("\n", $field['options']) : (array)$field['options'];
                foreach ($field['options'] as $option) {
                    $option = explode('|', $option);
                    $options[$option[0]] = $option[1];
                }
                foreach ((array)$user[$field['id']] as $choice)
                    $return[$field['id']]['options'][$choice] = $options[$choice];
            }
        }
    }
    return $return;
}
  

This is what I have in my author.php (gives me a blank page)

function get_s2member_custom_fields($user_id = $theUserID) {
    $return = array();
    $user = get_user_option('s2member_custom_fields', $user_id);

    foreach ((array)json_decode($GLOBALS['WS_PLUGIN__']['s2member']['o']['custom_reg_fields'], true) as $field) {
        if (isset($user[$field['id']])) {
            $return[$field['id']]['label'] = $field['label'];

            if (empty($field['options']))
                $return[$field['id']]['value'] = $user[$field['id']];
            else {
                $field['options'] = strpos($field['options'], "\n") ? explode("\n", $field['options']) : (array)$field['options'];
                foreach ($field['options'] as $option) {
                    $option = explode('|', $option);
                    $options[$option[0]] = $option[1];
                }
                foreach ((array)$user[$field['id']] as $choice)
                    $return[$field['id']]['options'][$choice] = $options[$choice];
            }
        }
    }
    return $return;
}
$s2_custom_fields = get_s2member_custom_fields($theUserID); 
echo $var['buyer_country_usa']['options'][0]['label'];

It’s probably a PHP error because of the existing function with the same name that I linked to in my last post. Try using the function already in s2Member or, if you prefer the one I wrote, give it unique name. That should do it.