By cj-1 on

Man, I feel like an idiot for asking, but here goes...

I simply want to print out the currently logged in user's name on the page. I've tried print $user->name, but that doesn't return anything. I've tried to look through the code to see if I could come across a clue, but alas - I'm clueless.

Can someone fill me in?

Thanks!

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ax’s picture

ax commented 
global $user;
print $user->name;
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cj-1 commented

That worked, thanks! Just curious, is there a list of all variables that can be accessed in the same way? I looked at the get_variable function, but that looks like it only grabs from the variables table in the database (please give me hell if I'm wrong).

Thanks again for the quick reply!

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Dries commented

And if you want the username to be a link to the user's information page, you can do:

  global $user;
  print format_name($user);