Hi,
First of all, appologise if this is in the wrong place.
I am working on a moodle block and I need to access some of the fields from the users profile, for example, firstname surname and a custom profile field.
I have been looking around the development wiki and community and the tutorials are brilliant in there but I cant find anything that seems to relate to this although I am sure it is possible.
Thanks in advance
Just as extra development, I have found this post
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=104868
And can use $USER to get the default moodle fields but not my custom fields, and the suggested sollution on the last post doesnt work (even with the syntax errors fixed)
So now ass I need help doing is accessing the custom userprofile fields.
Thanks
In your code, do
print_object($USER);
to see everything that is there. I think you will find that the data you want is there, you just need to work out the right way to refer to it.
Thanks, I sorted this last night.
I was using
$USER->variablename
But neeeded to use
$USER->profile['variablename']
