WordPress: get all meta data when user registers

Question

I have a user registration form in the front end (in the Users admin section as well) with three extra fields (apart from default ones): birthday, country, language. their values are stored in usermeta table.

I have this action hook to retireve all meta data for the registered user:

add_action('user_register', 'new_user_func');
// user registration callback function
function new_user_func($userID) {
 $newUser = get_user_meta( $userID );
 $userMeta = array();
 foreach ($newUser as $key => $value) {
 $userMeta[$key] = $value[0];
 }
 //do something with $userMeta...
}

var_dump($userMeta) after submit doesn't give me the extra fields value though.. only defaults (first name, last name etc)

Anyone know what might be the case?

Answer 1

Did you try getting the values with:

$meta = get_the_author_meta($meta_key, $user_id);

Perhaps the meta values you add yourself isn't supported by get_user_meta() .

If this don't work either, perhaps you need to look on how you went about creating the new meta fields. Theres a pretty decent tutorial on how to do it here: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/10/adding-and-using-custom-user-profile-fields

• Danton Francois: get_the_author_meta($meta_key, $user_id) returns a an empty string :/
• Danton Francois: i have another hook for profile update so when i edit a user in dashboard it retrieves the extra meta values. i am using ProfileBuilder Pro to add those extra fields.

Answer 2

Read de Codex entry for user_register action, it says: Not all user metadata has been stored in the database when this action is triggered.