calling usermeta to autofill fields

I have used the following code on my theme functions.php to create 2 new form fields for users to enter a phone number and their company name on their user profile, which works perfect:

add_action( 'show_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile', 'my_show_extra_profile_fields' );
function my_show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<table class="form-table">
<tr>
            <th><label for="phone">Phone Number</label></th>
            <td>
            <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'phone', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
            </td>
</tr>
	<tr>
            <th><label for="phone">Referral Agency</label></th>
	        <td>
            <input type="text" name="companyname" id="companyname" value="<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( 'companyname', $user->ID ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" /><br />
            </td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php }
add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update', 'my_save_extra_profile_fields' );
function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user_id ) )
    return false;
update_usermeta( $user_id, 'phone', $_POST['phone'] );
update_usermeta( $user_id, 'companyname', $_POST['companyname'] );
}

Back on Contact Form 7, I pull in the standard usermeta for the logged in user’s first name successfully using:

[text first-name default:user_first_name placeholder "First Name"]

But I am also trying to find a way to pull in the custom user meta for the new telephone and company name, sadly the following doesn’t work:

[text telephone default:user_phone placeholder "Telephone"]
[text company-name default:user_companyname placeholder "Company Name"]

Does anyone have any experience in creating custom user profile fields and calling these in to default form fields with contact form 7?

Thanks in advance.

• This topic was modified 6 years ago by designreaction.