Trying to pull phone number and combine it with carrier, cannot find phone number variable

Question

I am running a website that has users input phone number and carrier when they register. Using the Phone module to collect the phone number and a select list field to collect the carrier. How can I retrieve these variables so that I can combine them to make a phone email address (eg. 123456789@vzwtxt.com)

I have a plan for combining them I just need to know how to get the phone number out of the array based on the uid so that I can combine it with the carrier.

Thank you!

Answer 1

if you don't already have it, get DEVEL module. In your tpl file, use dpm($account); this will output the array. From there you can determine the proper element names.

it would be $field_phone_number[0]['value']; a trick to figuring out the exactly lineage is to progressively use dpm, ie: dpm($account), dpm($field_phone_number), dpm($field_phone_number[0]), etc. this is an easy one, but arrays can get in depth and complicated within Drupal

Devel:

Helper functions for Drupal developers and inquisitive admins. This module can print a summary of all database queries for each page request at the bottom of each page. The summary includes how many times each query was executed on a page (shouldn't run same query multiple times), and how long each query took (short is good - use cache for complex queries). Also a dprint_r($array) function is provided, which pretty prints arrays. Useful during development. Similarly, a ddebug_backtrace() is offerred.