Hello, I’m trying to use the ‘User’ field type in a repeater but am having trouble finding documentation on how to display specific information from the User. I just need the User’s display name; however, the_sub_field returns an array of data. I figured get_userdata would work but I don’t seem to be able to get the user’s ID first. I quickly tried using a relationship field loop but that didn’t seem to work either. Also note I am always going to limit each entry to 1.
if ( have_rows('wod_stats') ) : ?>
<ul class="wod-stats">
<?php while ( have_rows('wod_stats') ) : the_row(); ?>
<li>
<?php $wod_stat_member = get_sub_field('wod_stat_member'); ?>
<strong>Member:</strong> <?php echo $wod_stat_member->ID; ?><br />
<strong>Stat:</strong> <?php the_sub_field('wod_stat'); ?>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif;
The user field returns an array that looks like this:
Array
(
[ID] => 6
[user_firstname] => John
[user_lastname] => Doe
[nickname] => johndoe
[user_nicename] => johndoe
[display_name] => John Doe
[user_email] => [email protected]
[user_url] =>
[user_registered] => 2016-07-03 12:23:56
[user_description] =>
[user_avatar] =>
)
This was generated by adding the following to a template where I want to use the information
echo '<pre>'; print_r(get_field('user_field')); echo '</pre>';
Hope that helps
I’m having trouble with a similar issue. What I want is for the editor on the WP backend to be able to pick a user, and have only their avatar show up on a certain part of the page. The user picker is inside of a repeater field. So like every other field I use the code <?php the_sub_field(‘expert_1’); ?> to display it in my page, with ‘expert_1’ being the field variable name of the user. However, of course, this gives me an array of data, not just the avatar, and the life of me I cannot figure out how to use the array. When I do gettype() on the_sub_field(‘expert_1’), I get NULL, when I feel like I should be getting array. I tried the_sub_field(‘expert_1’)[10] and that didn’t work. The little documentation out there on the user field hasn’t been helpful. Thanks for the help!
I think that user_avatar in the above array only holds a value if the users upload on, but I’m not sure. I don’t have a lot of experience with this type of field. Usually when I want to display a user avatar I use this WP function https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_avatar and let WP do all the work.
Do you have an example of how one might dynamically populate the User array with a user? I’d like to dynamically add the the post creator to the User array.
