Automatically logging logged in user

As well as a timestamp and IP address, I'd like a form to log automatically the logged in user name. I guess there has to be some PHP expression which get this, and one way I can see of doing what I want is to use phpAdmin to add a column to the table created by chronForms, and extend the SQL string started with INSERT in autogenerated code appropriately. Do you agree this will work? What is the php expression I need? Is it the best way of doing it?

Apologies in advance if this is answered somewhere in the FAQs, or if it is more a native Joomla question.

Hi Tim,

Search the forums here for $my - this used to be a common question. If you don't find an answer that works for you please come back and ask again.

Bob

I've inserted the line

'".$my->email."' ,

in the Autogenerated code, and although I don't get an error, I don't get my email address appearing in the new field I set up. OTOH, when I have

[email]'me@mydomain.com[/email]' ,

the new field IS populated. Do I need to initialise $my somehow - like you have a line of code to initialise $database? This is probably trivial - just me not knowing much about php

Hi Tim,

Try

<?php
global $my;
?>

that was good for Joomal 1.0.x

Bob

Actually, this does it:

$my =& JFactory::getUser();

Hi Tim,

That's it, one of these days I'll get to learn all the new Joomla 1.5 codes too.

Bob