Accessing Additional User Profile Fields I added a dozen or so new fields (in Drupal 7) to the user profiles using:

Configuration -> People -> Account Settings -> Manage Fields
(admin/config/people/accounts/fields)

How can I access these values?  They do not seem to be part of $user

Tried, without success: 

global $user;
var_dump($user);
I think I found it. There is one additional step it seems.

global $user;
$user_full = user_load($user-&gt;uid); // user_load(uid) returns the complete array
var_dump($user_full);


I now have access to my custom profile fields through $user_full