[wp-hackers] Creating / Inserting into Table named after WP Username

[Gregory Lancaster]

OH I understand what you're asking.

I want to pass the User_ID to the new table upon registering because I am
coding this for a profile page of sorts.  So after registering, and
confirming registration they will load up say site.com/profile which will
dynamically pull their information from a separate table using their
user_id.  From that page they can enter different information that would be
saved in this separate database (for each user).

So the extra information they will be adding does not need to be added
right away, however to load the profile page with their display_name and
basic information I do need the information passed.  Now that you bring it
up however, I suppose I could have the profile page just check if the
current user_id exists, and if yes then show the basic profile page with
just their display_name etc.  But either way, once they enter information
into the on page form and submit it, the user-ID needs to be passed.

Which is where I came up with passing the current user ID, since they would
already be logged in and registered. Really most of the questions I asked
in this thread are variations of "how can I take the user_id and pass it to
a separate database upon registration (or upon form submit) so the
information in their specific table can be dumped back on their profile
page for viewing.

The information will (ideally) be outputted into a format where I could
format it with google charts or some type of visual display for them.

I hope that clarifies man, and again I am new to the loop so I apologize if
I am driving anyone insane here.  Any advice welcome :)


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:17 PM, J.D. Grimes <jdg at codesymphony.co> wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Gregory Lancaster <greglancaster71 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > When you say on the fly, you mean (for example) when a user registers,
> have
> > the user ID copied over into a sep database?  That is actually what I am
> > trying to figure out haha.  Id like to have the user->ID copied into a
> > separate database row *(or create a new table with the user-ID as the
> table
> > name)* after registration. If I could figure that out then I imagine the
> > rest would fall into place for me.  The WP loop is something I am still
> > learning, so I really appreciate the reference information *Nicholas. *
> >
> > *J.D* - Is that what you meant? Did I understand your question correctly?
> >
> > if current_user->ID if exists fetch array($result) echo $row[1]  etc...
>
> Not exactly what I mean. My question was why are you copying the user_ID
> over at that time - but that may not really be important.
>
> If you need to add some information do the database when a user registers,
> then you wan to use the user_register action hook as Nicholas said.
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/user_register
>
> But in your function hooked to that hook, you do *not* want to use the ID
> of the current user. You need to use the ID of the user that has just
> registered, which will be passed as the first parameter to your hooked
> function, as shown in the examples there.
>
> Back to my question, though, I'm not sure why you feel you need to do this
> at the time the user registers. I assume that it has something to do with
> the date/time oriented aspect of the data that you want to store? I.e., I
> guess you have some entries that need to go in at that time so they will be
> dated properly? But you are going to have to do this differently for
> registered users...
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:17 PM, J.D. Grimes <jdg at codesymphony.co> wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Gregory Lancaster <greglancaster71 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > When you say on the fly, you mean (for example) when a user registers,
> have
> > the user ID copied over into a sep database?  That is actually what I am
> > trying to figure out haha.  Id like to have the user->ID copied into a
> > separate database row *(or create a new table with the user-ID as the
> table
> > name)* after registration. If I could figure that out then I imagine the
> > rest would fall into place for me.  The WP loop is something I am still
> > learning, so I really appreciate the reference information *Nicholas. *
> >
> > *J.D* - Is that what you meant? Did I understand your question correctly?
> >
> > if current_user->ID if exists fetch array($result) echo $row[1]  etc...
>
> Not exactly what I mean. My question was why are you copying the user_ID
> over at that time - but that may not really be important.
>
> If you need to add some information do the database when a user registers,
> then you wan to use the user_register action hook as Nicholas said.
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/user_register
>
> But in your function hooked to that hook, you do *not* want to use the ID
> of the current user. You need to use the ID of the user that has just
> registered, which will be passed as the first parameter to your hooked
> function, as shown in the examples there.
>
> Back to my question, though, I'm not sure why you feel you need to do this
> at the time the user registers. I assume that it has something to do with
> the date/time oriented aspect of the data that you want to store? I.e., I
> guess you have some entries that need to go in at that time so they will be
> dated properly? But you are going to have to do this differently for
> registered users...
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