Hard Code user.module

You wouldn't have to rewrite anything is you went the template.php route ... if you follow the stuff in the link i posted you will end up with this in your template.php file ...

function phptemplate_profile_profile($user, $fields = array()) {
 /**
 * This snippet catches the default user list pages layout
 * and looks for a profile_profile.tpl.php file in the same folder
 * which has the new layout.
 */
return _phptemplate_callback('profile_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
  }

Then modifiy this to add the extra info in here ...

function phptemplate_profile_profile($user, $fields = array()) {
//Do the extra work here
$result = db_result(db_query("SELECT field FROM my_table WHERE uid=%d",$user->uid));
$user->new_value = $result;
return _phptemplate_callback('profile_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
  }

The $user object that you have in the tpl file will now contain an extra property ->new_value and you can then do what you need to with it (the new value could be an array, object, whatever it doesn't matter) ...

Hope this helps :)

PS - I really would try and stay away from modifying core, I know it sometimes seems like the easy route but its a slippery slope (i've been there) to a nightmare un-upgradable system!!

Mike,
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