profile.module: Can I hide some user profile info from the user him/herself?

Currently this function doesn't exists and I can't see an API to make the job, so consider write a patch to realize the job.
Create a new constant to define another PRIVATE method and create the hook_perm to set the rights to admins.

Well I don't think it's so hard, nor I am sure if it would be usefull enough to push this feature to core...

Try to get something working, with a little Drupal and php knowledge, I don't think this is so hard to achieve. Count with me to review your code.

I'm also interested in this...

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Hi,

I also had an entire profile category that I wanted to hide from users. My Drupal site caters for a family club and I have a 'Family relationships' profile category in which I, as administrator, keep a record of members' spouses and ancestors. I use this information to calculate how members are related to one another for display on my custom profile and members pages. I felt it was important to ensure that members couldn't alter any of these fields so I was looking for a way to hide the whole category. Eventually I solved the problem by amending one of the functions in profile.module.

Around line 385 there is a function called profile_categories() that returns an array containing titles of categories to display in profile pages. It looks like this:

function profile_categories() {
  $result = db_query("SELECT DISTINCT(category) FROM {profile_fields}");
  while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $data[] = array('name' => check_plain($category->category), 'title' => $category->category, 'weight' => 3);  
  }
  return $data; 
}

I changed it so it only returns all profile categories if the user has admin access. For any other user, it returns all profile categories except 'Family relationships'.

function profile_categories()
{
  if (user_access('administer users'))
  {
    $result = db_query("SELECT DISTINCT(category) FROM {profile_fields}");
    while ($category = db_fetch_object($result))
    {
      $data[] = array('name' => check_plain($category->category), 'title' => $category->category, 'weight' => 3);
    }
  } 
  else
  {
    $result = db_query("SELECT DISTINCT(category) FROM {profile_fields} WHERE category!='Family relationships'");
    while ($category = db_fetch_object($result))
    {
      $data[] = array('name' => check_plain($category->category), 'title' => $category->category, 'weight' => 3);
    }
  }
  return $data; 
}

This had the desired effect. Users can no longer view or edit the 'Family relationships' category of their profiles, but administrators still have access.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

Jeff