Dropdown in Profile Form Is Saved as Number Instead of Text
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Hi!
I have a problem with a dropdown not being saved correctly. The dropdown is part of the registration and there is works perfectly fine. The content of the dropdown is saved as text. However, I also included it within the profile form, so users can update it (on https://mydomain.com/account/)
So the problem is, when the dropdown is changed in the profile and updated, it is no longer saved as text, but as a number.
In my backend I created an extra column in the user overview that represents the values. There you can clearly see the wrong values.
I used this code to add my extra dropdown field to the profile form on the account page.
function modify_user_table($columns) { $new = array(); foreach ($columns as $key => $title) { if ($key == 'posts') $new['therapy_center'] = 'Therapiezentrum'; $new[$key] = $title; } // $column['therapy_center'] = 'Therapiezentrum'; return $new; } add_filter('manage_users_columns', 'modify_user_table'); function modify_user_table_row($val, $column_name, $user_id) { switch ($column_name) { case 'therapy_center' : return get_the_author_meta('therapy_center', $user_id); default: } return $val; } add_filter('manage_users_custom_column', 'modify_user_table_row', 10, 3);
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Hi @champsupertramp,
I use this code (the code from my first post is the wrong part of the code): I just create a field in the form editor called “therapy_center” (metakey) and then I add the field with said code:
/** * Add extra fields to user account tab */ function showUMExtraFields() { $id = um_user('ID'); $output = ''; $names = array('si_gender', 'therapy_center'); $fields = array(); foreach ($names as $name) $fields[$name] = UM()->builtin()->get_specific_field($name); $fields = apply_filters('um_account_secure_fields', $fields, $id); foreach ($fields as $key => $data) $output .= UM()->fields()->edit_field($key, $data); echo $output; } add_action('um_after_account_general', 'showUMExtraFields', 100); /** * Get content for extra fields in user account tab */ function getUMFormData() { $id = um_user('ID'); $names = array('si_gender', 'therapy_center'); foreach ($names as $name) update_user_meta($id, $name, $_POST[$name]); } add_action('um_account_pre_update_profile', 'getUMFormData', 100);The code hooks into two filters, that the Ultimate Member plugin provides, um_after_account_general and um_account_pre_update_profile.
For some reason, the select options in the HTML of the account form only have numerical values, like this:
<option value="0" data-select2-id="16">City</option>While in the registration, it looks like this:
<option value="City" data-select2-id="14">City</option>The output from the account form is generated by the UM method “edit_field”. I just give it the $data array related to the field (as you can see in my code), which looks correct to me, especially since it correctly identifies the field as “select” type:
krumo($data); (Array, 9 elements) type (String, 6 characters ) select title (String, 15 characters ) Therapiezentrum metakey (String, 14 characters ) therapy_center options (Array, 5 elements) visibility (String, 3 characters ) all label (String, 15 characters ) Therapiezentrum public (String, 1 characters ) 1 required (String, 1 characters ) 1 editable (String, 1 characters ) 1I don’t know what the edit_field method does inside. It’s several hundred lines of code, but it returns the HTML code with the value as numbers instead of the actual values.
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