By dudez12 on

What variable is the currently logged in user's username stored in?

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simul’s picture

simul commented

$user

you can try by creating a i.e. new page (input format should be php) and pasting the following code:

global $user;
print_r($user);

and you will see all the details of the current user

hth

dudez12’s picture

dudez12 commented

How do you get it to just display the username?

Chill35’s picture

Chill35 commented 
global $user;
print $user->name;

You can look at the article "Who am I" on my web site (link below).

simul has a very good idea : using print_r in a page with php input format, to examine what you've got available inside the variable $user.

Caroline
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simul’s picture

simul commented

$user -> name
and you print it out by

echo $user -> name;

technical details:
all the information about users is saved in a mysql table ("users") which has many fields like uid, name, pass, mode, threshold, signature etc. Drupal queries that table, create the php object $user and attach into it all the fields of the table "users". Then you can print each of these fields by using -> operator.
hth