List of user with BIO information and new custom extra fields

[carlo75]

Hi to all,
I would like to do a new page with a list of some users and their BIO information and a couple of new custom extra fields by the profile, like name and website.

According to the documentation of HotaruCMS, creating new fields it's really simple, but I've some problems to pull out these information in this page...

Any ideas on that?
Thanks in advance, regards.

[hotaruuser]

Hi

There is somewhere in the forum a topic from Nick about creating a memberlist, but I could not find it. With this documentation it was easy to make a custom memberlist.

Is your memberlist a extra php file in the theme directory, also no plugin? If so, you have to create the the userbase object. I did it this way:

  $userbase = new UserBase($h);
        $userbase->getUserBasic($h, $id);
        $profile = $userbase->getProfileSettingsData($h, 'user_profile');

And then you should be able to access the new profile data like this:

$profile['abc']

(abc is the extra field you have defined in your profile files)

Hope this was helpful? I am no php or hotaru expert, so without warranty

Edit: I found it:

http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...ql+TABLE_USERS

[carlo75]

Hi hotaruuser thnaks for your reply,
I'll try to manage your information, but seems doesn't work for my new theme.

My goal is to show a custom extra profile field, website, near the name of users in User Ranking sidebar widget. I've already created the new field, but I don't know how to pull out this one, in the rank list.

[hotaruuser]

If its a widget, then its in a plugin, so creating the user object should not be necessary, as far as I know.

Hmm, so you have to access the data another way.

I had it previously like this:

$profile = $h->currentUser->getProfileSettingsData($h, 'user_profile');

Then you had the $profile['abc'] variable, but, this is for the currentUser, also user viewing the page, so you need to change the part of the code, maybe by ID or something?

Hope it helps

[carlo75]

But $h->currentUser retrieve your profile informations (?)

[hotaruuser]

As I said, you have to find another function, not currentUser. Somehow the function getProfileSettingsData should know, which data it should retreive. Unfortunatedly, this function has no explaining in the documentation.

I found this one, should help:

http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthre...nalytics/page3

There this function is called like this:

$profile = $h->getProfileSettingsData('user_profile', $h->post->author);

Maybe you can just instead of $h->post->author give the $id used in the code of user_rankings.php

[carlo75]

Sure I've read so quickly.
I'll try to find it: I've already find $id but I receive an error for undeclared variable... really strange

[PuckRobin]

You can use TABLE_USERMETA table to save custom user fields. Analyse stop spam plugin to see how Nick used it.