User information and the $my object

11/16/2006

If during the development of a component or a module you wish to display information corresponding to the users of your Joomla site, like their name, their address email, or the date of their last visit or that you want to propose to the administrators to be able to manage the component since FrontEnd of your website, then you will have to use the total object $my.

We thus propose to you to discover all its properties…

id:	Id of the connected user or 0 if it is a not-connected visitor
name:	Complete name (Last name + First name) of the user
username:	login of the user
email:	email of the user
password:	Password of the user.
usertype:	Level of the user. This property can take the values: `superadministrator', `administrator', `editor', `to use', `author', `publisher' or `manager'
block:	Takes value 1 if the user is blocked (0 per default)
sendEmail:	Takes value 1 if the user receives the system emails (0 per default)
gid:	This property take values 0, 1, or 2 according to the group of which the user forms (Public, Registered, Special)
registerDate:	Date when the user was registered on the site.
lastvisteDate:	Date from the last visit of the user
activation:	The “key” activation of the account
params:	This property can contain various specific user data such as the text editor used

Example:

if ( $my->usertype == "Administrator" or $my->usertype == "Super Administrator" ) {
// Codes allowing the administration of your component in Front end
}

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