Computing a node field with a profile field [#215090]

Is there a way to pull a field from the profile of the user who's viewing the node (always registered in my case) and compute it with a field from that specific node?

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Comment #1

asak commented 28 January 2008 at 18:41

Answering myself: This probably isn't possible. from what i (now) understand the computation of fields is done on creation/update, and not when the node is actually viewed. It probably is possible to use data from the author's profile, but not from the viewer's profile.

Comment #2

Rosamunda commented 6 May 2008 at 14:53

It probably is possible to use data from the author's profile...

How could that be done? With Views?

Comment #3

sin commented 10 May 2008 at 13:37

Current computed field module has a bug -- field is calculated only on node save/update and not on every node view as advertised. This bug can be fixed with patch at #134661: Recompute on every display not working?. After applying this patch I use current user profile values with the following code:

// Load corrent user profile.
if (function_exists('profile_load_profile')) {
  global $user;
  profile_load_profile($user);
  if (!empty($user->profile_field_1)) {
    ... use $user->profile_field_1
  }
}