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title: Cleanly retrieving user profile data using an Entity Metadata Wrapper
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excerpt: How to use Drupal 7's EntityMetadataWrapper to cleanly retrieve user profile field data.
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-7
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- drupal planet
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- php
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date: 2021-02-23
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---
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Today I needed to load some Drupal user data via a [profile2](https://www.drupal.org/project/profile2) profile. When looking into this, most resources that I found suggest using this approach and calling the `profile2_load_by_user()` function directly and passing in the user object:
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```php
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$account = user_load(...);
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$accountWrapper = new EntityDrupalWrapper('user', $account);
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// or `$accountWrapper = entity_metadata_wrapper('user', $account);
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$profile = profile2_load_by_user($account->value());
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// or `$profile = profile2_load_by_user($account);`
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$profileWrapper = new EntityDrupalWrapper('profile2', $profile);
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$firstName = $profileWrapper->get('field_first_name')->value();
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```
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This though requires a few steps, and as I'm a fan of object-orientated code and Entity Metadata Wrappers, I wanted to find a cleaner solution.
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This is my preferred method that uses method chaining. It returns the same value, is less code, and in my opinion, it's cleaner and easier to read.
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```php
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$firstName = $accountWrapper
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->get('profile_user_basic')
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->get('field_first_name')
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->value();
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```
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