Adding the user's name to a sidebox

[FrankDeRosa]

I'm customizing a sideblock for a site I am working on. When a user is logged in, I want to show their username in a short greeting message. I thought I had it working with $username, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.

I've tried quite a bit of checking and searching but "user" is too short a word to search for, so that's made searching difficult.

Any help?

Thanks!
Frank

[Absolute]

It depends whether you want the username, or the user's name....

If you just want the user's name, as in the firstname of the customer, then you can use this code:

if (isset($_SESSION['customer_id'])) { // check the customer is actually logged in
  echo $_SESSION['customer_first_name'] .' ' . $_SESSION['customer_last_name']; // show the name variables you want to use
}

If you want the username (customers_nickname), then you would need to use the customer_id and query the database to get the customer field.

Absolute

[Absolute]

Just been pointed out that customer_last_name may not be available to you to use.

I would just like to add that this is in fact set within includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php on line 88:

$_SESSION['customer_last_name'] = $check_customer->fields['customers_lastname'];

So my suggestion would be either "try" the code I listed above, or use a database query to return the fields you require from the database, using the $_SESSION['customer_id'] as the key.

Absolute

[FrankDeRosa]

Your first suggestion worked perfectly. I double checked in the includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php file and it has the query for both first and last names, and I have no plans to change it.

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed.

Frank