Outputting user value in array

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August 2, 2022 at 4:05 AM #37306

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Hi Long,
I'm trying to output a user meta value in a shortcode, but its not going well. I only get a string with my value in.

add_shortcode ('user_academic_title', function(){
	$user = get_current_user_id();
	$user_academic_title = rwmb_get_value( 'academic_title',['object_type' => 'user'],$user);
    return var_dump($user_academic_title);
});

Can you see where I'm going wrong? I can't get my value out from the string. I have tried to read the documentation on arrays and shortcodes and I still can't make it work!

August 2, 2022 at 11:20 AM #37312

Long Nguyen

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Hi,

Can you please share the code that creates the user meta fields? And some screenshots of the value input/output. I will help you to check the issue.

August 2, 2022 at 1:52 PM #37314

Yasmine

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Thank you Long, I appreciate it. There are two fields

Academic position:

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', 'your_prefix_function_name' );

function your_prefix_function_name( $meta_boxes ) {
    $prefix = '';

    $meta_boxes[] = [
        'title'  => __( 'Profile: Academic Profile', 'your-text-domain' ),
        'id'     => 'academic_profile',
        'type'   => 'user',
        'fields' => [
            [
                
            [
                'name'          => __( 'Academic Position', 'your-text-domain' ),
                'id'            => $prefix . 'academic_position',
                'type'          => 'select',
                'options'       => [
                    'Distinguished Professor' => __( 'Distinguished Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Honorary Professor'      => __( 'Honorary Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Professor'               => __( 'Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Associate Professor'     => __( 'Associate Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Assistant Professor'     => __( 'Assistant Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Senior Lecturer'         => __( 'Senior Lecturer', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Lecturer'                => __( 'Lecturer', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Associate Lecturer'      => __( 'Associate Lecturer', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Junior Lecturer'         => __( 'Junior Lecturer', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Postdoctoral Researcher' => __( 'Postdoctoral Researcher', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'PhD Researcher'          => __( 'PhD Researcher', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Reader'                  => __( 'Reader', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Senior Research Fellow'  => __( 'Senior Research Fellow', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Research Fellow'         => __( 'Research Fellow', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Research Assistant'      => __( 'Research Assistant', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Research Consultant'     => __( 'Research Consultant', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Researcher'              => __( 'Researcher', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Journalist'              => __( 'Journalist', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Writer'                  => __( 'Writer', 'your-text-domain' ),
                ],
                'admin_columns' => 'after title',
            ],
        ],
    ];

    return $meta_boxes;
}

And academic_title


add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', 'your_prefix_function_name' );

function your_prefix_function_name( $meta_boxes ) {
    $prefix = '';

    $meta_boxes[] = [
        'title'  => __( 'Profile: About You', 'your-text-domain' ),
        'id'     => 'basic_profile',
        'type'   => 'user',
        'fields' => [
            [
                'name'    => __( 'Academic Title', 'your-text-domain' ),
                'id'      => $prefix . 'academic_title',
                'type'    => 'select_advanced',
                'options' => [
                    'Dr'        => __( 'Dr', 'your-text-domain' ),
                    'Professor' => __( 'Professor', 'your-text-domain' ),
                ],
                'columns' => 2,
            ],

And hard to share screenshot (although still can), but here is a copy and paste:

array(1) { [0]=> string(2) "Dr" }
NICE Test
array(1) { [0]=> string(18) "Associate Lecturer" }

August 3, 2022 at 6:21 AM #37322

Long Nguyen

Moderator

Hi,

Returning array so you need to use a loop to get the value of each element or point to a specific element to get its value.

$user_academic_title = rwmb_get_value( 'academic_title', ['object_type' => 'user'], $user);
return var_dump( $user_academic_title[0] );

Read more on the documentation https://docs.metabox.io/fields/select-advanced/

August 6, 2022 at 4:11 PM #37381

Yasmine

Participant

Thanks Long!

August 6, 2022 at 4:19 PM #37382

Yasmine

Participant

Actually - it is still not working.

On an admin account it outputs: string(1) "P"

And for a non-admin role it outputs: string(9) "Professor"

Can't seem to just get the "professor" part!

August 7, 2022 at 4:19 PM #37393

Yasmine

Participant

Got it working using sprintf - but it turned out shouldn't have been displaying as an array in first place (a third party plugin was modifying it). So all sorted. Thanks again.

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