Global variables

skelly · 09.12.2004, 03:27

I'm writing a custom component derived from a "hello world" tutorial I found linked elsewhere on the site. Up to now my only experience coding mambo components has been on a highly customized/hacked configuration that bypasses tons of the hierarchical objects and makes things super easy to access. On that system I am able to access global variables $uid and $gid to get the current logged in user's id & group id. Alas, this seems not to work in 4.5.1, so I am searching for how to retrieve those values from a 4.5.1 component and what other values should be accessible that may be of use. Any help?

Thanks!
- SK

skelly · 09.12.2004, 03:52

Found the uid: $my->id

What other global variables/structures are available?

zorkhh · 09.12.2004, 10:29

Hi,

sorry, i don't know if there's a list of them available. I would like to have it too. You might go top the /includes/ directory and view the code in there. You can learn a lot of it - esp. mambo.php and database.php

hth

ZorkHH

paww · 20.12.2005, 22:33

Try

PHP Code:

   foreach($my as $var => $value) {

        echo ("<b>$var :</b> $value<br>");

    }

you will simply get the list:

id : 62
name :
username : admin
email :
password :
usertype : Super Administrator
block :
sendEmail :
gid : 2
registerDate :
lastvisitDate :
activation :
params : editor=tinymce
_tbl : #__users
_tbl_key : id
_error :
_db : Object