How do you access user profile fields?

Question

In D7, using profile2 module, you would load the entity_metadata_wrapper from user object then access profile fields as such: $userWrapper->profile_XXX->field_XXX

Given that Profile2 is replaced by Profile module in Drupal 8, what is the Drupal 8's equivalent of accessing profile module's fields from a user object?

Answer 1

Profile module add a base field to the user entity for every profile type. so it's quite easy to get all the referenced profiles then access any field you want :

$profiles = $user->get($profile_type_id . '_profiles)->referencedEntities();

if you want the first profile.

$profile = $user->get($profile_type_id . '_profiles)->entity;

Answer 2

This is late, but other people will come here (just like I did).

I had to go into the profile module source code to find this, but I guess it's obvious when you think about it:

$list = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
  ->getStorage('profile')
  ->loadByProperties([
    'uid' => $account->id(),
    'type' => 'profile_type',
  ]);

You'll probably want to wrap it up in a service - and if you don't, you should take a long hard look at yourself as to why not :-)

Answer 3

Profile storage offers a helper method to load a profile by user.

$profile = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
  ->getStorage('profile')
  ->loadByUser($account, 'profile_type');

Answer 4

You can access the value of profile field values as below

$user = \Drupal\user\Entity\User::load(2);
$test1_value = $user->field_profile->entity->field_test1->value;

Before that make sure there is value in the user data