Calling custom profile questions in a page

By caveman on 15 May 2005 at 13:31 UTC

I'm trying to find some way to access (via php) a customized a user profile question within a page so I can customize content of the page based on their answer. For example, on one page I want to have 6 links visible to everyone, and a 7th link only visible to users who answer my profile question a certain way. So node access won't work. I also want instant access so relying on cron (like optin module) won't work either.

I did something similar by calling up $user, determining the role, and then customizing the page content based on that, but the custom profile questions don't seem to be accessible through the $user variable.

In drupal chat someone pointed me to the drupal function profile_load_profile (http://drupaldocs.org/api/4.5/function/profile_load_profile) but it looks like gibberish to me. I just need to be able to get the user's answer to my question (profile_affiliation | a pulldown list) into an "if" statement and I should be all right from there.

Thanks for any help you can give. I am really impressed with Drupal, but I was just about to give up on it because of a half dozen hurdles I didn't know enough code to work my way through. With the answer to this I think I'll be homefree! (for now). There's light at the end of the tunnel!

Caveman

Comments

A sample of using profile_load_profile

nevets commented 15 May 2005 at 14:25

Here is a small sample of using profile_load_profile

<?php
your_function()
{
  global $user;

  profile_load_profile($user);
  // Now $user has the profile fields
  if ( $user->profile_yourfieldname )
  {
    // Do something
  }
}
?>

Thank You!

caveman commented 17 May 2005 at 15:52

I really appreciate your help, nevets! It worked perfectly for me. I'm using it extensively on my site and it is powerful. Now when a person registers and gives their affiliation, their entire browsing experience is shaped and defined by that--including both blocks and pages. I'm ecstatic!

Caveman

PS. Sorry about posting in two different threads. Didn't discover the other until I posted my own question, despite quite a bit of searching. Found googling works better.

Assigning a role based on registration info

functions commented 11 January 2006 at 10:28

Hi everyone, I'm new to drupal (and very excited!) I was looking to achieve something similar to this, where a user would be automatically assigned a role based on a registration answer they provide (perhaps from a dropdown menu.) From this thread, it looks like this is possible. I'd be very grateful if anyone could lead me in the right direction. Thank you!

can I use another user's profile?

Mr Maggoo commented 12 November 2005 at 17:15

I want to have a custom profile field that is profile_msn

when someone views this user's page i.e. goes to 'http://mysite.com/user/1' they can see the person's msn address, and then a custom peice of code that displays wether or not that person's status is 'Online' on their MSN account.

Even better, can I display the online/offline status image on the 'who's online' block?

Thanks

Miles