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| author | ben <ben@36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544> | 2008-03-11 12:53:04 +0000 |
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| committer | ben <ben@36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544> | 2008-03-11 12:53:04 +0000 |
| commit | b5d489b4ce30472f974fdb794cfea77a624c7bee (patch) | |
| tree | 55d7466acf095d092f2ccdd6496b4bc405bfe067 | |
| parent | 09d3b786dedc3b4a4e2eeda6e47488eda199b794 (diff) | |
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user_info() ftw
git-svn-id: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@162 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544
| -rw-r--r-- | engine/lib/users.php | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/engine/lib/users.php b/engine/lib/users.php index 7a0de2af0..0130da549 100644 --- a/engine/lib/users.php +++ b/engine/lib/users.php @@ -356,6 +356,35 @@ }
/**
+ * Get a particular piece of user info
+ * @param string $fieldname The name of the field we want to get
+ * @param int $user_id The id of the user we're checking for
+ * @return The value we seek, or false if the user doesn't exist
+ */
+ function user_info($fieldname, $user_id) {
+
+ // Name table
+ static $id_to_name_table;
+
+ // Returns field from a given ID
+
+ $user_id = (int) $user_id;
+
+ if (!empty($user_id)) {
+ if (!isset($id_to_name_table[$user_id][$fieldname])) {
+ $id_to_name_table[$user_id] = (array) get_data_row("select * from users where id = {$user_id}"); // get_record('users','ident',$user_id);
+ }
+ if (isset($id_to_name_table[$user_id][$fieldname])) {
+ return $id_to_name_table[$user_id][$fieldname];
+ }
+ }
+
+ // If we've got here, the user didn't exist in the database
+ return false;
+
+ }
+
+ /**
* Enter description here...
*
* @param unknown_type $criteria
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