Hi everybody,

I want to display some few users profile informations like first name, last name and country in a block, that is displayed on every page. I manage to display the users name ($user->name) and the profile picture.
But I can't get additional profile information, that are stored in customized profile fields.
I tried to do it the same way like it is described in the customization of the profile page (phptemplate and theme snippet). But it doesn't work. The fields seems to be empty. Below you can find an extract of the coding for the block:

global $user;
print $user->name;
if ($user->picture) { 
	print theme('user_picture', $user);
} 
else {
	print '<img src="/drupal'.variable_get('user_picture_default', 'path/to/default.gif').'" alt="Default User Picture" />'; 
} 
print $user->profil_first_name; 

Any help? Thanks.