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I have a CiviCRM install set up with Drupal. I'm trying to build a completely custom Contact Profile. I've figured out how to use the API to pull contact data from CiviCRM, but it only includes the basic data, not any custom data fields I've set up.

How can I access the custom data fields? Here's the code I'm using that is not working:

function sncr_civicrm_contact_get($contact_id) {

    require_once 'api/v2/Contact.php';
    require_once 'api/UFGroup.php';
    civicrm_initialize(TRUE);
   
    require_once 'CRM/Custom/Form/CustomData.php';
    CRM_Custom_Form_CustomData::preProcess();

    $retrieve = array( 'contact_id' => $contact_id  );

    $results = civicrm_contact_get($retrieve);
    return $results[$contact_id];
 
}


I'm trying to completely customize the look and feel of the profile page to display certain member types in a Member Directory on my site. I need to be able to pull custom profile fields that I've created. How would I go about this?

I've run into this same requirement and am having some difficulty aligning the documentation with what I'm actually trying to accomplish.

I'm running CiviCRM 3.2 with Drupal 6.19 and have views2, cck, etc. installed.

The documentation I've been referencing is primarily:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Profiles+Admin
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Customize+Built-in,+Profile,+Contribution+and+Event+Registration+Screens

Which references "CRM/Contact/Page/View/Summary.tpl" but that file looks like it has nothing to do with what's displaying on the front-end.

I can see that CiviCRM is loading all of my fields (default & custom) correctly on the profile page (http://www.website.com/users/{user}).  The only Drupal fields seem to be history.

And everything CiviCRM is wrapped in <div id="crm-container" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

So, my question is: how can I customize the layout of this page?  I've gathered how to pull a specific field from the CiviCRM documentation but don't know which .tpl file I should be overriding and which part of the file I need to edit.

Since starting this thread I've seen:
CRM/Profile/Page/View.tpl
CRM/Profile/Page/Dynamic.tpl
CRM/Profile/Page/Overlay.tpl

Am I on the right track?  Any assistance or further direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Danny

Thanks for the quick follow-up!

As you can tell, I'm a bit of a noob.  I've been following CiviCRM for a while and have been really excited about it! ...just need to figure out some of these common tasks related to the website site of things.

I'm looking at the CRM/Profile/Page/Dynamic.tpl file and see this comment on line 172:

// $profileFields array can be used for customized display of field labels and values in Profile/View.tpl

...which conflicts a bit with what you're saying.  What part of this file should I modify?  Also, are there any examples of this?  It seems like it would be common.

Also, since the file controls other aspects of the system, do you mean writing logic into what will be my new code to "check" if it's a profile page?  How and where should I do that?

I noticed in the profile admin that it's possible to create custom templates per contact type.  Is that something I should be doing?  And does it work for the profile files?

Since the contact documentation says to create: /CRM/Contact/Page/View/SubType/subTypeFile.tpl (I guess I don't understand the the difference between the "contact" and "profile" template).

If this is all documented somewhere and I'm completely missing something let me know.  I hate to waste anyone's times with redundant information.

Thank you again!

I'll definitely be using views to display the profiles in a listing format once I get this profile thing figured out but hadn't considered using views to display the profiles themselves.  Honestly, I've been learning Drupal alongside CiviCRM so there's a ton I still don't know.  My background is really in Joomla & Typo3.

Any suggestions on how to get started w/that?  I guess using the username or something unique to a user as an argument?

What about the CiviNode plug-in?  I guess I could sync the fields and use CCK too.

I'm open to any solutions!

I really appreciate the help. 

It should be a pretty simple layout...

The list would be a name, photo & 2-3 custom fields.  I was also going to use arguments to filter the profiles by chapter (eg. "Orlando", "Tampa", "South Florida")

The profiles would be the same fields (arranged differently) with a 500-or-so character bio and, hopefully, contact information displayed to logged in users (like it does now with the default functionality).

I have a general idea of how to do this with CCK nodes and views but am completely lost when CiviCRM is introduced into the equation.

Thank you again!

here are some examples where i've modified the profile pages a fair amount:

http://svn.civicrm.org/sfschool/branches/v3.2/templates/CRM/Profile/

you can take a look there to see how to change look and feel / add new stuff / replace it completely with your own markup and layout

the 2 important things are:

1. For a specific profile, you know all the fields in it, and hence can call by name

2. Modify specific profile pages (using profile id) rather than all profiles

lobo

I was able to customize the CiviCRM fields in my Drupal profiles by editing the dynamic.tpl file under a directory name to the profile ID.

For anyone referencing this thread, I ended up using {$profileFields.first_name.value} to display a custom field.  For some reason {$profileFields_ID.first_name.value} ({$profileFields_1.first_name.value} for profile ID 1) as the documentation suggests didn't work.

lobo, is there a way to pull the URL field from image_URL versus {$profileFields.image_URL.value} which produces the default HTML (without modifying CiviCRM's core)?

I was hoping to display larger images in the profiles.

Danny