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I am trying to customize the user-profile.tpl.php file.

I can access the all custom fields using $user_profile['field_fieldname'], and I can even access the user picture using $user_profile['user_picture'], but I don't know how to get the user email.

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I solved this by following way.

$account = menu_get_object('user');
$mail = $account->mail;
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The email field is part of the $user variable. For the currently logged in user, you can get to it via:

global $user;
$user_email=$user->mail;

and a quick:

drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($user,true) . '</pre>');

will show you all sorts of information that is available.

If you need it for a different user, you need to grab the $node->uid from the node you are looking at and then do a user_load($node->uid) to get to the info...

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  • I tried this it didn't work. Nov 29, 2011 at 8:43
  • The user profile template file is not associated with any node.
    – apaderno
    Dec 3, 2011 at 13:55
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You do know that Users are fieldable now, so you can add whatever CCK fields you want, like phone number, links, e-mail, etc. Each it's own field type. There's no need to get messy in your template files to customize the user profiles.

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  • Yah i know that but I don't want to use custom field for email. Nov 29, 2011 at 8:43
  • Rupesh Pawar just wants to use the email address that is associated with the user object. The user object used by Drupal already contains a property for that, without the need of a CCK field.
    – apaderno
    Dec 3, 2011 at 13:58

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