$user->get($fieldname)

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This gets the current value of the identified field. It has one parameter:

parameter

description

$field

The field name is case insensitive and may be a synonym defined to facilitate readability. Late static binding is used so this method takes advantage of field name definitions in the derived class. The field name may also be a temporary field defined by assigning a value to it in the set method. This method creates a trace entry if the field name does not correspond to any field in the record and debugging is enabled.

It overloads the base implementation as follows:

field name	description
'id'	The id field is managed by the database server. If the current record does not exist in the database this returns null. Use of this field is deprecated because both 'username' and 'email' are external unique keys.
'usemail'	returns a non-zero value if the corresponding bit in 'options' is non-zero, otherwise zero.
'password'	always returns null. There is no way to get the plain text of the password.

This method returns the current value of the field. This method returns null if the field name does not correspond to any field in the record, and generates a warning message.

Next: $user->getId()