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Hi,
I'm building a buddypress based site and I'm leaning more towards using s2Member fields rather than BP extend profile fields due to number of reasons.
What I wan to know is, is it possible to build a search plugin for s2Member profile fields (similar to BP Profile Search plugin)? If so can you show me the right direction?

The fields are stored in a serialized array, so they're a bit harder to search than if they were in their own columns in the database table.

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$s2_custom_fields = get_user_option('wp_s2member_custom_fields', $user_id); 

Look at it in the database so you see how they're stored and how you could search them.

I hope this helps.

Yup, I was looking at this yesterday and understood it to be a JSON string.
I think I'm gonna have a custom table that duplicates the data in a queryable way on profile update.
I actually need admins to approve profile modifications, so I can use the duplicate table as the intermediate destination for new data works as well.

Thanks!

No problem! Keep us updated, please. Would love you to know how you finally solve it and how.