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I am trying to add custom profile field editing functionality to the forum’s edit profile form in the user control panel (path is forums/member/edit_profile).

It’s my understanding that there is no way to access the custom profile fields except using an sql query to get the data manually. I need a way to get the member id of the current user so that I can find their information in the database. Normally, the {member_id} variable could be used, but that doesn’t seem to work in the forums.

How can I find out the member id of the current user? Or is there a better way to edit custom profile fields?

Thanks!
Brandon

Welcome to the EE forums, Brandon

EEWiki:// Using Session Variables via PHP

You can set up the forums to use PHP in templates.

This bit is just to get you started in finding a full answer.

Thanks! I never would have found that on my own. I had to enable PHP in the templates in output mode in order for it to work. But it’s working. Thanks again.
-Brandon

Excellent, Brandon! Glad you got it working. I’m going to close this thread, but don’t hesitate to open a new one if needed.