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

[Gregory Lancaster]

Thanks for your help guys - One last question.  My form calls submit.php,
which is a separate file from wordpress obviously.  I have tried using the
get_current_user_id and get_currentuserinfo() within submit with no
success.  How can I get that information?


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:42 PM, J.D. Grimes <jdg at codesymphony.co> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Yes, I think that is what I would do.
>
> You can get the ID of the current user in several different ways. You can
> use get_current_user_id() (
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_current_user_id) to get
> just the ID. If you want o get the WP_User object for the current user,
> then use wp_get_current_user() (
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user).
>
> > I should add, that the on page form used to submit this information is
> used
> > multiple times for dated information input.  So if I use one table rather
> > than a table for each user_id then every row (and every button submit)
> > needs to grab the user-ID and input that with the form information so it
> > can be extracted.  Thats why I was opting for table names prefixed with
> the
> > user-id rather than rows with a user ID column.
>
> Yes, but one table with a user_id column just makes sense to me. You are
> going to need to grab the user ID on each submit either way. I definitely
> wouldn't want to clutter my database with hundreds of tables -- that's a
> bad idea, trust us on that one.
>
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Gregory Lancaster <greglancaster71 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 :)
> >
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