User Data

Access Data of the User Currently Logged in

An instance of class ilObjUser for the user currently logged in ILIAS is available through the DI-Container. You can use the public methods of this class to access the data of the current user (see components/ILIAS/User/classes/class.ilObjUser.php):

function foo()
{
    global $ilUser;
    [...]
    $user_id = $ilUser->getId();
    $user_firstname = $ilUser->getFirstname();
    $user_lastname = $ilUser->getLastname();
    [...]
}

Standard User Name Presentation

The class ilUserUtil provides a static method called getNamePresentation(...) that should be used to display user first and last name whenever possible.

• The login is always displayed as [login]
• First and last name are only displayed if there is a public profile (this can be overridden by parameter $a_force_first_lastname)
• Optionally the user image can be included
• Optionally a link to the public profile of the user can be included

$this->tpl->setVariable("TXT_USER",
    ilUserUtil::getNamePresentation($user_id, true, true, $back_link));