By czarphanguye on

How do you print a custom profile value? I'll be adding this to comment.tpl.php

Tried '$location', '$profile->location', "$profileobject->location'. Nada.

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

You'll need to get the username or uid from the $comment object, then use that to load the user record with user_load(). The resulting object will have the profile information, including your custom fields. A bit of examination with print_r() will help you understand it.

czarphanguye’s picture

czarphanguye commented

Thanks for the reply, yet I have no idea what you just said.

Regards,

Czar

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nevets commented

To follow up on yelvington's suggestion, as code this woudl be

$account = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid));
profile_load($account);
// Now you should be able to access the profile fields
// Not sure what the fields are, use the following to see all the user & profile fields
print '<pre>' . print_r($account, TRUE) . '</pre>';
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Anonymous (not verified) commented

How do you figure out when you need to do load stuff like 'user_load()' and what the actual command is?
For example, I need to do basically the same thing but for a taxonomy term. I want to be able to display Tags in the teaser. I tried things like $node->taxonomy->name...then realized it's in an array so tried some other stuff like $node->taxonomy[30]['name']. Eventually figured out taxonomy wasn't the array name...problem was I couldn't figure out what the array was called as it wasn't displayed in print_r. Unless I was doing something wrong...which wouldn't be a surprise. Is there an easy way to figure out what variables and what not you need to display certain fields?

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nevets commented

First off, some of it is just learning since there is no single "solution", that said here are some tips to get you started. A good starting point is the PHPtemplate section of the handbook. In particular check out the *.tpl.php sections which show the standard variables to a given template file. Some are strings, some are objects. You can always use

<?php print '<pre>' . print_r($variable, TRUE) . '</pre>'; ?>

to see the details of one of the variables. You will wan to replace $variable with the actual variable name (example: $comment for comment.tpl.php).

As for the taxonomy terms, $node->taxonomy holds the terms associated with a given node. $node->taxonomy is an array of taxonomy terms (as objects) and you can access a given element with $term = $node->taxonomy[30] and a particular element $node->taxonomy[30]->name. You can also loop through the array with something like

<?php
foreach ( $node->taxonomy as $term ) {
// Do something with the term, here we print the
// term to see what the object holds
print '<pre>' . print_r($term, TRUE) . '</pre>';
}
?>
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alxbkh commented 
<?php
foreach ( $node->taxonomy as $term ) {

print '<div class="person-name">'.l($term->name, 'node/'. $term->tid).'</div>';
}


?>

thanks a lot for this topic, it helps to improve my site too)