Answered Empty User Extended Container

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sottwell Reply #1, 11 years, 7 months ago
How would I go about creating a new empty container in a user's extended field?

I used this
```
<?php
if ($profile = $modx->getObjectGraph('modUserProfile', array('User' => array()), array('fullname' => 'Sub Two'))) {
    $user = $profile->User;
    $extended = array();
    $extended = $profile->get('extended');
    $extended['subscriptions'][''] = '';
    $profile->set('extended', $extended);
    $profile->save();
}
return;
```
and it did create a container with one empty attribute, but that empty attribute becomes attribute '0' with no value. I just want an empty container, with no attributes. In the database, if the container is created in the User editing form, it looks like this
```
{"subscriptions":[]}
```
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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 7 months ago

To answer myself, I found this works fine. Create an empty extended attribute

<?php
if ($profile = $modx->getObjectGraph('modUserProfile', array('User' => array()), array('fullname' => 'Sub Two'))) {
    $user = $profile->User;
    $extended = array();
    $extended = $profile->get('extended');
    $extended['subscriptions'] = '';
    $profile->set('extended', $extended);
    $profile->save();
}
return;

When you want to add an attribute to it, just treat it like an array, and it will at that point automatically become a container.

<?php
if ($profile = $modx->getObjectGraph('modUserProfile', array('User' => array()), array('fullname' => 'Sub Two'))) {
    $user = $profile->User;
    $extended = array();
    $extended = $profile->get('extended');
    $extended['subscriptions']['1234'] = 'timestamp';
    $profile->set('extended', $extended);
    $profile->save();
}
return;

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