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As the title says, I am trying to get the values from a custom field I added to the user profile. I am using this code from a previously asked question regarding this.

$user = \Drupal\user\Entity\User::load(\Drupal::currentUser()->id());
$value = user->custom_field->value;

This seemed to work for the person that previously asked this question but the problem I am running into is that it is only returning values of an anonymous user regardless of who I am logged in as. For example if I replace custom_field with uid it will return a value of '0'. Any idea where I could be going wrong?

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  • Install Devel module, and write dsm($user); above the code you have already, then reload the page, click on the yellow bar, and tell us what comes up.
    – Collins
    Aug 11, 2016 at 19:24

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You're missing a $ in your second line.. Should be $user->

I always use the below.

global $user;
$user = user_load($user->uid)

And then get the field like your last line. If someone else could confirm if that is a waste and there's a better way to load the field, that'd be great.

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  • I think its a typo by @jecunningham2281. Aug 12, 2016 at 5:28

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