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hi,

On my site, http://www.plugin.com, i need to list users who are authors only in the sidebar widget on the home page. i created a new sidebar widget (Companies) for this but cant seem to get the user_level data back from the bp_core?

i created the following routine in bp_cure

function bp_core_get_userlevel( $user_id) {

$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);

//debugging

echo(‘Username: ‘ . $user_info->user_login );

echo(‘User level: ‘ . $user_info->user_level );

echo(‘User ID: ‘ . $user_info->ID );

return $$user_info->user_level;

}

its being called in bp-core-widgets.php like this

<div class=”item-meta”><span class=”activity”><?php echo bp_core_get_userlevel( $user->user_id ) ?></span></div>

But i cant get it to return the userl_level. With the debugging on, it returns user_login and ID but user_level is always empty/blank?

I have tried every other possible way to do this but cant seem to get it to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks

karsten