Create, Define, Add,Update fields in WP User Profiles

• jaffycake

• September 16, 2016 at 3:57 pm

Hi guys

I’ve been coding a fake betting site and your plugin has been a massive part of that.

However I’ve run across a problem and I don’t know how to fix it.

I use many fields in the user profiles but for this example, we can just look at the bank balance of each user which is a simple number field.

I have created the field for bank balance and added its location to user profiles. However, that bank balance does not exist until a user manually presses “Update” on their profile.

Is there a way that I can define and create all of the bank balances for every user?

Would adding an account creation script that defines the variable/field when a user registers be possible and the correct way to do it?

I’m using ACF version 4. Do I need to upgrade to do this?

*Edit*

I’ve realised I can use either of these:

<?php  update_field( 'testbankbalance',"15",'user_'.$user_id); ?>
<?php update_usermeta( $user_id, 'testbankbalance', "11" ); ?>

This successfully alters the value in a field in the user profile of the selected user.

However, I need to do this for a repeater field. Is it possible to do this using the update metadata method? Right now my repeater fields show no rows when I try to loop through them. I need to define the repeater fields for every user.

• John Huebner

• September 16, 2016 at 9:16 pm

you can use update_field() to set the value. Pass an array for the values

array(
  // nested array for each row
  array(
    // element for each field
    'field_409832048038' => 'value',
    'field_04230949393a' => 'value',
    // etc
  )
)

I show field keys because it’s better to use field keys when updating fields that may not have values yet.

• jaffycake

• September 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm

I upgraded to Pro version which gave me the ability to alter repeater array sizes. I am using a work around for now.