[Closed] Referenced a user custom field in child theme

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[kyleH-2]

Hi there,

I'm trying to figure out how to reference user custom field in a child theme template.

For example, I have added a checkbox with the values 0 or 1 as a custom user field. I would like to write a if statement in PHP, if custom_user_field_xyz is 1, display content.

Please could you give me an idea as to how to do that, the documentation (https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/) isn't clear. I'm a little confused with the arrays.

Thank you in advance,
Kyle

[Beda]

The array is used to specify the output method (raw, for example, if you do want only the value, not the wrapping HTML)

A Checkbox field, for example, is called like so in PHP:

types_render_field("checkbox-field-slug", array("output" => "raw"))

This will output the checkbox value, you can try to see what it precisely outputs either using echo (a PHP function) or error_log(print_r($variable, true)); and populate $variable first with the types_render_field() function.

However, be careful with saving 0(zero) to the database:
https://toolset.com/errata/checkboxes-that-save-0-are-interpreted-as-checked-by-views/

You cannot use that in a View later, better is to save "real" values like strings or numeric (but not 0)