Custom Plugin: Select all FEUsers filtered by field value

Hi master,

This should be possible using the available public function. We created a tutorial video that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKiJAjq7PhQ. The second part of the video explains how to do something similar to what you want to achieve by utilizing Get_Field_Value().

Thanks for your answer. So that means, I have to load all feusers (well a list of their ids) and then iterate over all of them and get the field value. If I have 5000 feusers, wouldn’t make that 5’001 sql queries only to get all feusers that are male?

It would depend on what you want to do with your plugin. If all you want to do is display different information or content based on whether someone has selected male or female, then you could just use something like the following, as described in our video:

Let’s say your custom field is called Gender:

$Gender_String = $FEUP->Get_Field_Value("Gender");
$Gender = explode(",", $Gender_String);
if(in_array("Male", $Gender)){
    //do whatever you want to do here
}

Yes, I have understood that. But the plugin I’d like to develop would be a backend plugin (only for administrators) which should be able to get a list of all feusers that are male (or female or whatever). So it is not a kind of showing or hiding or doing anything depending on the currently logged in feuser.

What I am after is something similar as you have in your plugin in UsersPage.php right at the beginning (ca. lines 20-33). But of course it would be much safer, if there would be a public function we can use.

There’s no different version of the public function. If what you want to do can’t be achieved within the context of the public function that currently exists, then you’d have to custom code something yourself. Unfortunately, that kind of customization goes beyond the scope of our support.

Ok.