$account = \Drupal::currentUser() loads the user object into $account, but how do I access custom fields I've created on the user object (via the admin UI)?
With dpm($account) I can't see any of my custom fields.
3 Answers
\Drupal::currentUser() returns an Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface object. That could be a full user (that would be a Drupal\user\UserInterface), but right now, for the default authentication method, it is not.
Use this to get the user entity and all the fields:
$user = \Drupal\user\Entity\User::load(\Drupal::currentUser()->id())
D7 had exactly the same behavior, the difference now is just that in D7, they were simply different stdClass'es, now you have explicit interfaces to differentiate the two.
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Despite the down-vote, this answer is correct, even about Drupal 7.
$GLOBALS['user']doesn't contain a full loaded user object, in Drupal 7; it contains only the information found in the users table.– apaderno ♦Apr 26, 2016 at 7:59 -
Yeah, not sure why this got a downvote. It is correct, both about D7 and D8.– mpdonadio ♦Apr 26, 2016 at 14:50
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This is only part of the answer. And in fact, it gets you no closer to the data than the original "solution". You have to "get" the data from the object. To do that - see the working solution posted by @batigolix below.– sea26.2Jan 30, 2019 at 18:14
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Note that fields that don't have values will not appear in the values array. Sep 5, 2019 at 14:24
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1It could be, yes. That said, user entities are statically cached, so that call should be very fast in almost all cases.– BerdirApr 27, 2020 at 21:08
And here is how to get it out of that object:
// Load the current user.
$user = \Drupal\user\Entity\User::load(\Drupal::currentUser()->id());
// Get field data from that user.
$website = $user->get('field_website')->value;
$body = $user->get('body')->value;
// Some default getters include.
$email = $user->get('mail')->value;
$name = $user->get('name')->value;
$uid= $user->get('uid')->value;
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1Also, the User entity doesn't have a body base field. If that is a field added from the user interface, the field name would start with field_. I would avoid that example, as it makes users think that is a base field added from Drupal core code.– apaderno ♦Sep 2, 2019 at 12:41
Drupal::currentUser() returns an object implementing Drupal\Core\Session\AccountProxyInterface. That is different from what returned from User::load(), which is an object implementing Drupal\user\UserInterface.
This means it's not assured you get a full User object with its fields loaded, but it's not even assured you get a User object. As consequence, you call call some of the methods available from the User class, such as User::get(). You can call AccountInterface::id(), which returns the user ID; with that, you can then load the full User object with User::load() and have access to all the fields modules attached to the entity.
use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountProxyInterface;
use Drupal\user\Entity\User;
$account = User::load(\Drupal::currentUser()->id());
With $account, you can then access all the fields associated with a user account.
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Perhaps, but it still begs the question: "how do you access the CUSTOM fields". See answer above from @batigolix– sea26.2Jan 30, 2019 at 18:20
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The question is more Why
$account = \Drupal::currentUser(): dpm($account);doesn't show any custom fields? but this answer says how to access user entity fields. Since the question doesn't say which fields the OP is trying to access, the answer just says which method to use. There aren't answers from @batigolix.– apaderno ♦Jan 30, 2019 at 19:48
\Drupal::currentUser()->id()and then do a database query, but in D7 they were there on the object already?