Question Kunena - Saving profile clears all Joomla user custom fields

Hi ruud,

patch is applied and works. no more overwrite of custom fields. Thank you for your support.

However stilll no way found to set a user custom field from PHP (Kunena) . Any help on that would be highly appreciated.

Hi, in the Kunena user edit form an event is triggered: onKunenaTabsEdit
so the best way to achieve the Custom User fields on the Kunena User edit page is via a (self created) Kunena plugin that catches the onKunenaTabsEdit event and returns the custom fields to display on the edit form.
Doing it this way you are also sure that it will also survive a Kunena upgrade

or, you do the required changes in existing plg_kunena_joomla and do a PR for them to the Kunena team. That way it will be part (when accepted) of the Kunena release. A win for everybody

Hi ruud,

I can already display and edit user custom fields. I did it via a custom tab in components/com_kunena/template/crypsis/layouts/user/edit of crypsis template. But I have only done radio buttons and checkboxes.

I read those fields via FieldsHelper::getFields('com_users.user', JFactory::getUser(), true); and then loop through the fields and build a form with input fields. As I only have custom fields of type radio and checboxes, that is what I did.

What I did not find is a way to set the fields after submit of the form. I saw controllers/user.php . But how do I technically set a custom field in Joomla profile?

And then I have to read how to do PR. But I would luckily contribute.