User Meta

Hi

I have a sign up form that is supposed to store a few pieces of user meta... How do I go about actually storing these in the database?

One of these bits of data is the user's formal title 'Mr / Mrs / Dr / Miss / Ms' and then echo that out when a user posts... So it would be 'Mr Doe' for example. I know how to echo a last name but am struggling with the formal title setting that I've introduced. I've set up the form so I've added a dropdown and then selected the item 'formal title' in the user registration 'user meta' section and labelled it 'formal title'... What do I do next?

It seems the form submits and I have a form entry notification of these field entries, but they're nowhere to be seen in the database?

I'm a bit confused. What is the purpose of the 'User meta' section in User registration form settings if it doesn't actually store this data?

Thanks for your time in advance.

I checked the database but there doesn't seem to be a meta-key or meta-value for those items in there?

thanks

I had the same problem with the one drop down field on the form. All other form data is in the wp_usermeta table, but the drop down field that has 6 choices does not go into wp_usermeta table.
I have successfully added 4 users with the paypal, and user registration add ons, but this one field is not going into the mysql db. the checked choices do show on the entries section and on the form data sent to admin. Am I missing something?

ok, i see the user meta for a checkbox field in the db.
Each checkbox is a separate record.
the meta_key is the value