How do I get the user's email in the user profile template?

Question

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.

Answer 1

I solved this by following way.

$account = menu_get_object('user');
$mail = $account->mail;

Answer 2

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...

Answer 3

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.