$my->setFieldValue( 'PASS_STYLE', "B3B3B3" );

$my->getFieldValue('PASS_STYLE');

//backend

Warning

Username and password do not match or you do not have an account yet.



//FTP

Response:	530 Login authentication failed

Error:	Critical error

Error:	Could not connect to server

1. Problem: the textbox value, as displayed to the end-user in their profile, does not show it's value as I have set it via code. Instead, the texbox, as displayed to the user in their profile, shows what the Admin had set as the default value for that textbox.
   


2. Goal: I want to be able to set a default value for a texbox via the Admin back-end that can then be retrieved via code. Today, the default value that is set by the Admin for a textbox is not returned via code. A value will be returned via code only after one of these things happen: i) the value is set by the end-user, or ii) the value is set via code.
   

As an example, I have added a second textbox. You'll see the value in the profile is Test if I can retrieve this text field value from code. but accessing the value via code I receive these values

["value"]=> string(0) "" ["raw"]=> string(0) "" ["data"]=> string(0)




3. Goal: I want to be able to set the value for a textbox via code that will display for the user in their profile. Today, setting the textbox value via code does not result in that value being displayed for the user when they view their profile.
   

As an example, you can see this in the first textbox where I set via code the value to This is a test and that value is returned when accessing the field via code. However, when looking at that texbox value in the user profile you still see the fields Default value:



[{"membership":[{"name":"Silver","background":"B3B3B3","label":"141619"},{"name":"Gold","background":"BA9C00","label":"383000"},{"name":"Platinum","background":"9C9D9E","label":"141619"}]}]

	require_once( JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_easysocial/includes/foundry.php' );



        // Social user

        $my        = Foundry::user();



        // set Custom Field

        $state = $my->setFieldValue( 'PASS_STYLE', "This is a test" );

        $testtext = $my->getFieldValue('PASS_STYLE');

        print("<br>");

        print_r("Text Field");

        print("<br>");

        print_r("======================");    

        print("<br>");

        var_dump($testtext);



        // 

        // Test to see if we can get the default value

        //

        $virgintext = $my->getFieldValue('VIRGIN-TEXT');

        print("<br>");

        print("<br>");

        print_r("New Text Field Defaul Value");

        print("<br>");

        print_r("==========================");

        print("<br>");

        var_dump($virgintext);

what you are trying to achieve

Using "setFieldValue" will actually store the data on the database. The "text" field does not rely data from the database because it only reads the text value from what you set at the back end.