Advanced Custom Fields Image Field returning ID instead of URL [closed]

I’m using ACF to add custom fields to a User. I’m trying to output these fields to the front-end. I was able to pull all fields, but when I was trying to get the img it wouldn’t pull.

Here’s my code:

<?php $user_id = get_query_var( 'author' ) ?>
<?php $clan_member_info = get_userdata($user_id); ?>

<p><?php if(!empty($clan_member_info->psn_id)) echo '<li>' . $clan_member_info->psn_id . '</li>'; ?></p> //Example of me pulling a text field

<?php if(!empty($clan_member_info->cover_photo)) echo '<img src="'.$clan_member_info->cover_photo.'"/>'; ?>

The example of the psn_id pulls perfectly. The img returns this <img src="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/229180/95">.

In the User section in WP, for my own User I uploaded a photo to the field. In the ACF field group I have the field to get “Image URL”. I was hoping, if you look at the code, to spit the url into the src and output the img.

If I’m missing any data, I could provide a full pastebin url of the php file.

When using ACF you should use the methods described in their website documentation because ACF does not store data in the normal WordPress way.

You can use the get_field or the_field functions to retrieve data from your fields.

For example to get data for your field ‘cover_photo’ you could do:

$user_id = get_query_var( 'author' )
$cover_photo = get_field('cover_photo', 'user_'.$user_id);
// Assuming you have this field set to return a url
echo "<img src="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/229180/$cover_photo">";

For more information see: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/how-to-get-values-from-a-user/