Hello all! This is probably a fairly n00bish question but how does one find the userid? I want to get it for a chat plug-in I am developing. Then the next step from that would be getting the users full name from the userid. I have this currently hard-coded into the header.php before the HTML is loaded:

$username = bp_core_get_username( $bp->loggedin_user->id );
session_start();

echo $username;
$_SESSION = $username; // Must be already set

but it’s value always seems to be blank (or NULL/nil)
Any suggestions? Thanks

[@nit3watch Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

There’s a plug-in that displays the user’d id for each member but in the back-end, under ‘users’. Maybe the code will be useful to you.. havn’t had a look.

http://www.primothemes.com/post/wp-show-ids-plugin/