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Pull in fields from page with same name as username

  • Hi, using the example of pulling in custom field data from other pages using $other_page, I’m trying to pull data in from a page which is called the same name as the current logged in user. So far, I have:

    
        global $current_user;
	get_currentuserinfo();
	$other_page = is_page( '$current_user->user_login' );

        echo the_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);

    …but while in theory it should work, it doesn’t. I have my repeater all set up now if could get this page name/username working, all my issues will be sorted (well, for tonight at least).

    Any advice would be most appreciated.

    Phil

  • Hi @phil.owen

    I think your code is caugin $other_page to be a true|false.
    $other_page = is_page( '$current_user->user_login' );

    Looks like that is a boolean returning function mate, perhaps you meant to write this?

    
$other_page = $current_user->user_login
if( is_page( $other_page ) )
{
    the_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);
}

    2 issues with your code:
    1. quote marks in the is_page function
    2. echo the_field does not need an echo

  • Hi Elliot,

    Thanks for you help with this. I’ve tried your suggestion which broke my page – assuming it was because $other_page = $current_user->user_login was missing a ; on the end?

    Anyhow, this is what I have so far but still doesn’t pull anything in from the ACF field in the page:

    <?php 
       global $current_user;
       get_currentuserinfo();
										$other_page = $current_user->user_login;
	if( is_page( $other_page ) ) {
	the_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);
	}
   ?>

  • Try this, probably won’t work but who knows… 🙂

    <?php function get_currentuserinfo() {

		global $current_user;
		$other_page = $current_user->user_login;
		$field = get_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);

		if( is_page( $other_page ) ) {
			echo $field;
		}	
	}
?>

    If not, should post the whole code since you mentioned using a repeater.

  • Hi @phil.owen

    You should debug your code to test all the variable values

    Cheers
    E

  • Hi Nuro, that’s a no on that but thank you for your suggestion.

    It’s crazy. It seems so easy yet just doesn’t work.

    Trying it normally with manual ID of page like:

    <?php
$other_page = 890;
?>
<?php the_field('field_name', $other_page); ?>

    …works great so the data IS being passed from the other page. I then had another idea of trying this way:

    <?php
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$username = $current_user->user_login;
$other_page = $username;				
?>
<p><?php the_field('favourite_movie', $other_page); ?></p>

    …which didn’t work either.

    The username of the current user IS also working when I ask for it conventionally:

    <?php global $current_user;
      get_currentuserinfo();
      echo 'Username is ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
?>

    Baffled.

    Elliot, how can I debug this? I’ve tried dumping the values:

    <?php
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

$other_page = $current_user->user_login;
$values = get_field('favourite_movie');
var_dump($values);
?>

    and get bool(false) printed out?

  • Hi @phil.owen

    Your above ‘debugging’ code is missing the $post_id param. Also, you are not testing that the user_login is correct. Try this:

    
$other_page = $current_user->user_login;
var_dump($other_page);
$values = get_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);
var_dump($values);

  • It returns this:

    string(10) “CompanyOne” bool(false)

    CompanyOne is the username of the current logged in user.

  • Hi @phil.owen

    Aah, I see the problem now. The $post_id param is wrong.

    You need to create a string like this "user_{$user_id}";

    So perhaps $other_page should be 'user_' . $current_user->ID?

    Good luck

    Thanks
    E

  • Hi Elliot,

    I’ve tried implementing like this:

    <?php
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

$other_page = 'user_' . $current_user->ID;
?>
<p><?php echo the_field('favourite_movie', $other_page); ?></p>

    Is this what you mean? It doesn’t seem to do anything.

    Thanks for you help with this.

    P

  • Hi @phil.owen

    Where are you using this code? In what file / action?

  • An Woocommerce ‘My Account’ file. Sits in mytheme/woocommerce/.

    Like I say, it works fine when I have the ID of the page in there so it can communicate fine with the global data. Just cannot get username as $other_page.

  • Hi @phil.owen

    Just to clarify, you don’t want the username as $other_page, you want the user ID:

    
$other_page = 'user_' . $current_user->ID;

    Have you debugged the value returned yet?
    var_dump($values);

    Perhaps the value is loading, but it can’t be echo’ed due to it’s variable type?

  • This:

    $other_page = 'user_' . $current_user->ID;
var_dump($other_page);
$values = get_field('favourite_movie', $other_page);
var_dump($values);

    Gave me this:

    string(6) "user_3" bool(false)

  • Hi @phil.owen

    So you can correctly get the $post_id value, that’s good. The next step is to understand why you are getting false back from the get_field function.

    In what file are you running the get_field function? Are you aware that if you use it in your functions.php file, the get_field will not work as expected until after the init action?

    Perhaps this is the issue?

    Thanks
    E

  • Hi. I am having the same issue. I use an ACF Field group to extend an user profile. acf_form works perfect, and I have seen the fields in the wp_usermeta correctly for my user_id. But, when I get the get_field(‘phone_number’,’user_’.$current_user->ID) it returns false.

  • Sorry. Forget it. It has worked for me. I was making a mistake when doing get_field. Sorry for the inconveniences

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