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I have a custom user field 'myuserfield'
How do I save a value to this field via a plugin in Craft3?
Here is my current attempt.
$myvar = '12345';
Craft::$app->getUser()->getIdentity()->setFieldValue('myuserfield', $myvar);
$myid = Craft::$app->getUser()->getIdentity()->getFieldValue('myuserfield');
When I echo $myid it does, in fact, give me the new value ($myvar or 12345) but when I check the control panel the value is not saved.
I used August's answer, but fixed it:
Put this at the top:
use craft\elements\User;
Then the updating code
$myUser = Craft::$app->getUser()->getIdentity();
$myUser->setFieldValue('fieldHand', 'value');
Craft::$app->getElements()->saveElement($myUser, false);
Be sure and stash a reference to the User element you want to edit:
$myUser = Craft::$app->getUser()->getIdentity();
$myUser->setFieldValue('myUserField', 'New Field Value');
if (Craft::$app->getElements()->saveElement($myUser)) {
echo "User saved.";
}
Otherwise, you may end up repeatedly fetching the stale record out of the database, instead of saving the modified instance.
Note: The similarly-named
Craft::$app->getUsers()is a method for getting the Users Service instance, which is responsible for saving users. Not to be confused withCraft::$app->getUser(), which is a (Yii) method for fetching the current user (the subsequent call togetIdentity()retrieves the Craft Element for the user).
