Custom Profile fields and calling them
 

so i want to create links in a profile to basically submit a query that will compare lists of 2 members [for a trading website]

the url link will basically look like:

http://www.website.com/search.cgi?us...R2&list2=TRADE

and include this in the postbit.

can you use vb code to call a user's own (USER1) entry in a custom profile field and then call the poster's (USER2) entry in that same profile field?

profile fields are just stored in the database, so you may create a query to call each of them. How you go about comparing the two strings is going to be the interesting part.

well the link/script is external to the forums, and i just need to insert the user and the poster's entries from the respective profile fields into the URL with something like a raw.post --

so basically i want to use like a raw post.fieldX to populate the a URL with user and poster's entries for that field.

can i call a user's own entry for a profile field with vb code? i'm using this in a postbit modification. in the template if i use raw post.fieldX it uses the poster's entry, and not hte user. I'd like to use both.

In the postbit, post.fieldx is the person who posted and bbuserinfo.fieldx is the person viewing the page.

awesome. thanks! :D