Code recipes

If you want to write custom code to programatically create or manage profiles, you can use these code recipes as a starting point.

Creating profile types

/**
 * id [String]
 *   The primary identifier of the profile type.
 *
 * label [String]
 *   The human-readable name of the profile type.
 *
 * status [Bool] - [OPTIONAL, DEFAULTS TO TRUE]
 *   [AVAILABLE = FALSE, TRUE]
 *   Whether or not it's enabled or disabled. 1 for enabled.
 *
 * description [String]
 *   The label for this profile type.
 *
 * registration [Bool] - [OPTIONAL, DEFAULTS TO FALSE]
 *   [AVAILABLE = FALSE, TRUE]
 *   Whether the profile type is shown during registration. 1 for enabled.
 *
 * multiple [Bool] - [OPTIONAL, DEFAULTS TO FALSE]
 *   [AVAILABLE = FALSE, TRUE]
 *   Whether the profile type allows multiple profiles. 1 for enabled.
 *
 * roles [Array(String)]
 *   Array of roles a user needs to have to attach profiles of this type.
 *
 * weight [Integer, DEFAULTS TO 0]
 *   The weight of the profile type compared to others.
 *
 * use_revisions [Bool] - [OPTIONAL, DEFAULTS TO FALSE]
 *   [AVAILABLE = FALSE, TRUE]
 *   Whether or not profiles of this type always generate revisions. 1 for enabled.
 */
$profile_type = \Drupal\profile\Entity\ProfileType::create([
  'id' => 'my_custom_profile_type',
  'label' => 'My custom profile type',
  'description' => 'A brief, administrative description for my custom profile type',
  'registration' => TRUE,
  'multiple' => TRUE,
  'roles' => ['authenticated', 'administrator'],
  'weight' => 10,
  'use_revisions' => TRUE,
]);
$profile_type->save();

// Add a custom field to a profile type.
$field_storage = \Drupal\field\Entity\FieldStorageConfig::create([
  'field_name' => 'profile_fullname',
  'entity_type' => 'profile',
  'type' => 'text',
]);
$field_storage->save();

$custom_field = \Drupal\field\Entity\FieldConfig::create([
  'field_storage' => $field_storage,
  'bundle' => 'my_custom_profile_type',
  'label' => 'Full name',
]);
$custom_field->save();

// Make the custom field private.
$custom_field->setThirdPartySetting('profile', 'profile_private', TRUE);
$custom_field->save();

Creating profiles

// Create a new, active profile for a user.
$user = user_load_by_mail('customer@example.com');
$profile = \Drupal\profile\Entity\Profile::create([
  'type' => 'customer',
  'uid' => $user->id(),
  'status' => TRUE,
  'address' => [
    'country_code' => 'US',
    'postal_code' => '53177',
    'locality' => 'Milwaukee',
    'address_line1' => 'Pabst Blue Ribbon Dr',
    'administrative_area' => 'WI',
    'given_name' => 'Frederick',
    'family_name' => 'Pabst',
  ],
]);
$profile->save();

// Create an anonymous customer profile.
$anonymous_profile = \Drupal\profile\Entity\Profile::create(['type' => 'customer']);
$anonymous_profile->save();

Loading profile types

// Loading is based off of the primary identifier [String] that was defined when creating it.
$profile_type = \Drupal\profile\Entity\ProfileType::load('my_custom_profile_type');

Loading profiles

$user = user_load_by_mail('customer@example.com');

// Get profile storage to use ProfileStorage methods.
$profile_storage = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('profile');

// Load an inactive customer profile for a user.
$customer_profile = $profile_storage->loadByUser($user, 'customer', FALSE);

// Load an active customer profile for a user.
$customer_profile = $profile_storage->loadByUser($user, 'customer');

// Load a specific profile.
$profile_id = $customer_profile->id();
$profile = $profile_storage->load($profile_id);

// Load all profiles for user.
$profiles = $profile_storage->loadByProperties(['uid' => $user->id()]);

// Load all active customer profiles for a user.
$customer_profiles = $profile_storage->loadMultipleByUser($user, 'customer');

// Load all inactive customer profiles for a user.
$customer_profiles = $profile_storage->loadMultipleByUser($user, 'customer', FALSE);

// Load default customer profile for a user.
$default_profile = $profile_storage->loadDefaultByUser($user, 'customer');

ProfileLabelSubscriber

The default label for a profile is the name of the profile type followed by its unique id. For example: "Customer profile #10". In the Commerce Order module, Drupal Commerce uses the ProfileLabelSubscriber event subscriber to set the customer profile label to the first address line.

In this example, we assume that a Nickname field, field_nickname has been added to our Customer profile type and we want to use a profile's Nickname for the profile label whenever a Nickname has been entered. We give our event subscriber a lower priority -100 so that it will run after the the event subscriber in the Commerce Order module.

<?php

namespace Drupal\mymodule\EventSubscriber;

use Drupal\profile\Event\ProfileLabelEvent;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;

class ProfileLabelSubscriber implements EventSubscriberInterface {

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public static function getSubscribedEvents() {
    $events = [
      'profile.label' => ['onLabel', -100],
    ];
    return $events;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the customer profile label to the nickname if it exists, first address line otherwise.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\profile\Event\ProfileLabelEvent $event
   *   The profile label event.
   */
  public function onLabel(ProfileLabelEvent $event) {
    /** @var \Drupal\profile\Entity\ProfileInterface $order */
    $profile = $event->getProfile();
    if ($profile->bundle() == 'customer' && !$profile->address->isEmpty()) {
      if (!empty($nickname = $profile->get('field_nickname')->value)) {
        $event->setLabel($nickname);
      }
      else {
        $event->setLabel($profile->address->address_line1);
      }
    }
  }

}

Don't forget to add the event subscriber to your module's services.yml file and rebuild caches.

services:
  mymodule.profile_label_subscriber:
    class: Drupal\mymodule\EventSubscriber\ProfileLabelSubscriber
    arguments: ['@entity_type.manager']
    tags:
      - { name: event_subscriber }

Altering profile inline forms

Checkout panes and billing and shipping profile widgets use inline forms to render profile forms using specific form displays. These forms can be altered using the hook_commerce_inline_form_alter and hook_commerce_inline_form_PLUGIN_ID_alter hooks. For example, the Commerce shipping module implements the plugin-id specific version of the hook to attach the "Billing same as shipping" element to the customer_profile inline form:

function commerce_shipping_commerce_inline_form_customer_profile_alter(array &$inline_form, FormStateInterface $form_state, array &$complete_form) {
  // Attach the "Billing same as shipping" element.
  $profile_field_copy = \Drupal::service('commerce_shipping.profile_field_copy');
  if ($profile_field_copy->supportsForm($inline_form, $form_state)) {
    $profile_field_copy->alterForm($inline_form, $form_state);
  }
}

When using the more generic form of the hook, you can use the #inline_form attribute of the inline form to identify a specific plugin and the #profile_scope attribute to identify the form mode, like this:

function hook_commerce_inline_form_alter(array &$inline_form, FormStateInterface $form_state, array &$complete_form) {
  /** @var \Drupal\commerce\Plugin\Commerce\InlineForm\InlineFormInterface $plugin */
  $plugin = $inline_form['#inline_form'];
  if ($plugin->getPluginId() == 'customer_profile') {
    if ($inline_form['#profile_scope'] == 'billing' && !isset($inline_form['rendered'])) {
      // Modify the billing profile when in "form" mode.
      $inline_form['address']['widget'][0]['#type'] = 'fieldset';
      // Individual address elements (e.g. "address_line1") can only
      // be accessed from an #after_build callback.
      $inline_form['address']['widget'][0]['address']['#after_build'][] = 'your_callback';
    }
  }
}

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