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How can I get the UID of a user from their username?

How can I get the UID of a user from their username?

This little code will do it:

{$mybb->user['uid']}

I need a function like so:

function uid_to_username($username)
{
//find username using user id
return $uid
}

This will grab the uid if their username is correct. I'm assuming you know how to grab their username, if not just let me know and i'll edit it

global $db;
$qry = $db->query("SELECT uid FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."users WHERE username = '".$usernamevar."'");

Thank you very much!

NP, feel free to +rep me

Simpler way.

$user = get_user($uid);
echo $user['username']

Ah, much simpler. Thank you.

No problem.