[SOLVED] How to display a field value for a connection

1st, I am a paid user (paid for documentation).
2nd, I searched everywhere I found for the answer before posting:

Once a connection is accepted and a profile owner now sees a connection box with their avatar showing; how can I get a field value to show from the connections profile?

I looked at inserting into cb.connections.php a value like:

$connection->cb_fieldname

Not working...

$user->cb_fieldname

works fine.

It is probably a simple mistake but I am now baffled. Thanks for any help.

aaron@servicefly.com wrote: 1st, I am a paid user (paid for documentation).

You were - thank you - FYI your subscription ended in february.

2nd, I searched everywhere I found for the answer before posting:

Once a connection is accepted and a profile owner now sees a connection box with their avatar showing; how can I get a field value to show from the connections profile?

I looked at inserting into cb.connections.php a value like:

$connection->cb_fieldname

Not working...

$user->cb_fieldname

works fine.

It is probably a simple mistake but I am now baffled. Thanks for any help.

You cannot without modifying code. The connection box is just meant as a quick link back to connected profile so you can see the value at its source.

I guess you would need to load the connected user object - maybe krileon can follow-up on this later...

Thanks for the quick reply Nant. My apologies, I honestly had not realized my subscription was up. I look forward to becoming a Professional subscriber when CB 2.0 comes out (I hope it's soon:).

To add a little more detail, I just want the connection's city to be displayed in the connection box or a text field with similar data.

Thanks guys...

I am now further baffled! I have used everything I could to retrieve the value:

$_CB_database->setQuery ()

and

cb:userdatafield, blah, blah, blah

I even tried to add variables to cb_core to reference.

I know the following variables are connected to $connection:

name
username
email
primaryemailaddress
image
pm

etc...

and it seems they are related to field types??

Before this; I thought I was a decent PHP guy o_O

Oh, I forgot to mention I have been all through Krileon's tutorials.

Can you guys bump this up to the Professional forum? I purchased it in hopes I could get this answered. Thanks.

You would need to make the below edit to add additional content in the form of a CB user object.

IN: components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbconnections/
ON: Line 258
FROM: TO:
Once done you can now use $conn_user->cb_fieldname to add field values anywhere you want. The reason you can't use $connection is because it's just a custom database object and is not a CB user object.

Please understand we do not support core edits, professional subscriber or not, as it risks the integrity of your site and you WILL lose the edits when upgrading. Against better judgement the above was provided anyway, please use at ones own risk.