Add xprofile fields in bp_get_users

[DennisSmolek]

While working on a pretty large site Im running a large import of users (20,000+) and I'm afraid of going down the wrong path.

Core WP lets me define any user_meta I want in the meta table, but this data isn't then tied back to xprofile data so its not easy to display on profiles. It does however let me use get_users() which I can then query that meta data and return an array of users.

Which for example I wanted to pull everyone with the state of TX is very easy. If this data was xprofile data its hard to query that data.

Looking at bp_core_get_users it already joins the xprofile table so converting off from "meta_key"/"meta_value" to "field"/"value" shouldn't be too bad.

This would allow a single bp_get_users() to pull users based upon their profile data.

In the mean time I'm adding meta AND xprofile data which is redundant but a stop gap until I can either code my own query or bp adds one.

[boonebgorges]

This is something I would like to have as well, but it seems unwise to add an xprofile join in this method. It simply won't scale, due to the xprofile table schemas. (In truth, xprofile_data has the same problems as usermeta in terms of scalability.)

Once we have done some of the fixes in #4060 - which are the very first thing I plan to do during the 1.7 cycle - we can start to consider truly scalable methods of the kind of filtering you're hoping to do.

[DJPaul]

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