$bp->loggedin_user->fullname
– Nicola
$bp->loggedin_user->fullname
$bp->loggedin_user->username
$bp->loggedin_user->id
$bp->displayed_user->fullname
$bp->displayed_user->username
$bp->displayed_user->id
ok, this one is bizarre. i can\’t seem to get the username to display on either method. what could I be doing wrong?
here is my test:
echo \”1)\”;
echo $bp->loggedin_user->fullname;
echo \”2)\”;
echo $bp->loggedin_user->username;
echo \”3)\”;
echo $bp->loggedin_user->id;
echo \”4)\”;
echo $bp->displayed_user->fullname;
echo \”5)\”;
echo $bp->displayed_user->username;
echo \”6)\”;
echo $bp->displayed_user->id ;
here is the result:
1)Andrea R.
2)
3)23
4)Andrea R.
5)
6)23
use fullname, username is
global $current_user;
$current_user->username;
$current_user->nicename;
$current_user->display_name;
$current_user->loginname; <= this could be wrong, check the codex
Howdy, We\\\’ve got several ways of referring to a user:
In code:
1) The user id from the wp_users table.
2) The users *login* username
Pretty stuff that gets displayed:
3) The user name that wp has for the user (Display name publicly as: in wp profile)
4) The bp user\\\’s full name
bp uses the user id in most cases to refer to a user. Most of the core template tags take a user id as a parameter. The var $bp->loggedin_user->username doesn\\\’t exist. Nor does the var $bp->displayed_user->username. They aren\\\’t currently being set to anything.
I\\\’m kinda guessing you were shooting for the login username there. The global wp var $userdata->user_login and $current_user->user_login have what you want there.
One thing you have to be aware of is that the $bp->loggedin_user is available throughout bp no matter where you are. The var $bp->displayed_user is only available when the user is in the member theme.
Instead of using the vars directly it might be best to use the template tags in bp-core.php that are like bp_get_user<somthing>() or the template tags in bp-core-templatetags.php for some other user related items: bp_loggedinuser_<somthing>() functions. If things change in bp and the vars change then the wrapper functions just mentioned should shield you from rewriting code.
Posting around each other again aren’t we nicola? 
thanks all for the help, chewing on this now
I ended up using this, which I assume is a WP variable in case anyone can use it.
global $current_user;
$username = $current_user->user_login;
