Modifying profile meta HTML

@missveronicatv — thanks for that! I have found the function, and I’m pretty sure I understand what its doing. Now, what’s the proper way to replace it?

Obviously, not by editing the core file! Do I copy class-profile.php into my theme file and edit it there? Do I use delete_action, add_action in my functions file? Or is there some other way?

@missveronicatv –

Another week, another challenge!

So, in my customized show_meta function, I was able to use:

$items[] = apply_filters( 'um_show_meta_item_html', '<p class="' . $key . '">' . $value . '</p>', $key );

instead of the original spans & bullets. This works just as I want, except…

In my custom profile form, I have added a field called “Supervisor. This field is a drop-down whose options are populated by a callback script that lists every user who has the UM role of “supervisor.” (This is the first thing you helped me with, and it works fine.

So, if the user whose profile I am displaying has a supervisor (most of them do) then I want to go get some additional user data about the supervisor and display it.

Here’s where I’m at… I have added the following code :

$testvar = 'No work';
if ($key === 'Supervisor') {
	$theSupervisor = get_user_by('display_name', $value);
	if ( ! empty( $theSupervisor ) ) {
		$testvar = 'it works';
	}

	$value = $value . ', ' . $testvar;
}

$items[] = apply_filters( 'um_show_meta_item_html', '<p class="' . $key . '">' . $value . '</p>', $key );

This displays $testvar as “No work.” The user object is not getting got.

I know the value of the “Supervisor” key is the display_name of a user (It has to be, because that’s what the script supplies to the field. Yet, $theSupervisor is empty.

Could it be that $value is NOT a string at this point? Its also possible that I bolloxed the syntax–but I don’t think so. Any ideas?

Thanks, as always.

–don

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Well… carp!

I guess I’ll have to figure out some way to store the user ID or email.

@missveronicatv –

That would have been good too! Before I saw your suggestion, i figured out a solution (probably not as efficient, but this site will always have a membership of <50 users). Using what you helped me with to build the dropdown, I wrote a new function:

function get_supervisor_login($sup_name) {
   $args = array(
	'role' => 'um_supervisor',
	'orderby' => 'user_nicename',
	'order' => 'ASC'
   );
   $users = get_users( $args );
   foreach( $users as $user ) {
     if($user->display_name == $sup_name){
	$login_name = $user->user_login;
     }
   }
   return $login_name;
}

This gets me the login (which was one of the pieces of data I needed anyway, and from that I can use get_user_by() to get the rest.

Thanks for your continued help!

–don