Custom Profile fields and calling them

[Cicada]

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?

[Lynne]

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.

[Cicada]

Originally Posted by Lynne

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.

[Lynne]

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

[Cicada]

Originally Posted by Lynne

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

awesome. thanks!