Inserting username into a form

[tim18]

Hello all,

I've made a relatively simple form that submits the values of several text boxes into a new table on my database.
One of those is a 'name' field. However I don't want the user to be able to write their own name, but rather get the users user name and insert that value instead.

I tried just changing the variable to the constant "{USER_NAME}" but it didn't like that at all.

I'm sure this is not that complicated... or is it?

Thanks
Tim

[Sami]

USER_NAME is constant and so it's global if you included init.inc.php to your page , maybe you are put it wrong way
post your code if you need more support

[tim18]

Thanks Sami

Well ok, here is the php that passes the variables onto the database.

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$user_name = get_username($uid);
$sql="INSERT INTO $tbl_name(topic, detail, name, email, datetime)VALUES('$topic', '$detail', '$user_name', '$email', '$datetime')";


include/init.inc.php is defined at the start.

Its actually returning "anonymous" now so i think i'm on the right track...

[Sami]

try this

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$user_name = get_username(USER_ID);


Or this

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$user_name = USER_NAME;


[tim18]

Sami

You are a genius. Thanks for taking the time to think about that 

You've made one Australian teenager very happy

Both options work seamlessly.

Thank-you

Tim

[Sami]

You are welcome ,

Actually using 2nd method would save more resource than first one and it's recommended
To get any other user's name than current user you can use get_username function