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1. crookeddesigns
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I've run into a bit of a snag with a theme I'm developing. I've created a custom user profile field called "occupation" (using the tutorial located on Justin Tadlock's blog), when the user comments on a post I want to display the following specific information about the user commenting:

   If the person's occupation is set to "alpha" display:
   I am an alpha, my job consists of A, B & C.

   If the person's occupation is set to "beta" display:
   I am a beta, my job consists of D, E & F.

   If the person's occupation is set to "gamma" display:
   I am a gamma, my job consists of G, H & I.

   If the person is none of these, display nothing.

   I can get the users occupation to display by simply using:
   <?php get_the_author_meta('occupation'); ?>

   If I try to create a conditional statement, nothing shows up. Here's what I tried:

   <?php $occupation = get_the_author_meta('occupation');
   if($occupation == 'alpha') { ?>
   I am an alpha, my job consists of A, B & C
   <?php } elseif($occupation == 'beta') { ?>
   I am a beta, my job consists of D, E & F
   <?php } elseif($occupation == 'gamma') { ?>
   I am a gamma, my job consists of G, H & I
   <?php } else { ?>
   <?php } ?>

   The only way I can get anything to display is by changing
   if($occupation !== 'value')
   but by doing that I end up with all of the values showing up for every occupation type so after every comment it spits out: I am an alpha... I am a beta... I a gamma... one after the other.

   Obviously there has to be a better way of doing this. Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper & Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   are you definitively sure what is in your get_the_author_meta('occupation');
   i.e. capitalisation, spelling, spaces?

   maybe if you apply a trim() and strtolower() ...

   I can get the users occupation to display by simply using:
   <?php get_the_author_meta('occupation'); ?>

   i would have assumed you need to use an echo in that code (?)

3. crookeddesigns
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thanks for your reply! I wasn't able to get it to work using that method, however this worked just fine:

   <?php $occupation = get_the_author_meta('occupation');
   if($occupation == 'alpha') { ?>
   I am an alpha, my job consists of A, B & C
   <?php } wp_reset_query(); if($occupation == 'beta') { ?>
   I am a beta, my job consists of D, E & F
   <?php } wp_reset_query(); if($occupation == 'gamma') { ?>
   I am a gamma, my job consists of G, H & I
   <?php } wp_reset_query(); else { ?>
   <?php } ?>

   I'm sure there's a cleaner way of doing it without multiple query resets, but that worked like a charm.

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