Nesting custom mini profile fields?

[Sixsmith]

I've been trying to apply custom text fields that can be customised by the user and having them show up as "shortcuts" in say, the header of the forum. Problem is, it doesn't seem to be showing up at all. Could anyone advise on this?

{foreach $[current_user.mini_custom_field]}

{if $[current_user.mini_custom_field.name] == "SHORTCUT URL"}


<a href="$[current_user.mini_custom_field.value]">



{foreach $[current_user.mini_custom_field]}

{if $[current_user.mini_custom_field.name] == "SHORTCUT NAME"}

$[current_user.mini_custom_field.value]

{/if}

{/foreach}



</a>



{/if}

{/foreach}

[Kami]

Custom profile fields are not available outside of the 'profile' and 'mini profile' templates; additionally, template variables can only be used in template pages (I'm not sure if you mean 'header' as in 'headers and footers' or 'header' as in 'the top of the forum').

Hopefully this answers your question as to why it's not working?

[Sixsmith]

On the contrary, it's apparently possible (under example 1). It works in the forum wrapper if I don't try to nest the variables, but once I try to let users dictate the shortcut name, it doesn't quite work. Would there be any solution around that?

[Kami]

Feb 26, 2017 18:52:54 GMT -8 Sixsmith said:

On the contrary, it's apparently possible (under example 1). It works in the forum wrapper if I don't try to nest the variables, but once I try to let users dictate the shortcut name, it doesn't quite work. Would there be any solution around that?

Ooh thanks for the info! *files away for later*

Oh, I see what's going on here, sorry, I misread your post entirely -- yeah um, these variables don't actually nest. I know I and another theme creator have made a suggestion to allow for this in v6.

To work around it is kind of hacky, but I wind up wrapping variables around each portion of the HTML, eg:

[variable 1 start]
<a href="link">
[/variable 1]

[variable2]


[variable 1 start]
</a>
[/variable 1]

[Sixsmith]

I'm good with hacky if it works! Thanks for the workaround :>

[Kami]

No problem! Try and keep them all with one 'foreach' loop as much as possible -- there's a 25 loop limit i believe.