How to make the UserProfile Info availlable on a block

Question

I understand how to preprocess a specific block to make some variable available for that it, but what I don't understand is where I grab these variable that I want to be available in my block.

I have the following code:

function THEME_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
    $variables['user_profile']= $user_profile; 
}

$user_profile is NULL.

So in other terms what i would like is to grab all the data entered by a user during the registration and make it available within block under for instance a user_profile variable. Is it possible at all?

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Well i tried but it doesn't seem to do anything in drupal 7. Also isn't the user variable holding data only for the current loged in user ? I would like to retrieve the data of any user in order to populate the profile page with it.

Answer 1

You need to use the global user object to get info about the currently logged in user, then pass that user object to profile_load_profile:

function THEME_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
    global $user;
    $user_profile = profile_load_profile($user); 
    $variables['user_profile']= $user_profile; 
}

(code is untested but should work)

Answer 2

Here is the correct snipet:

function THEME_preprocess_block(&$variables) {
    $variables['user_profile'] = menu_get_object('user');
}