User Account

Use the {user} Smart Tags to retrieve information about the currently logged-in user. This Smart Tag can return the value of any property from the Joomla User object as long as you know the property's name.

{user.USER_PROPERTY}

Below is a list of this category's most popular Smart Tags.

{user.id}

Returns the ID of the user.

{user.name}

Returns the name of the user.

{user.firstname}

Returns the first name of the user.

{user.lastname}

Returns the last name of the user.

{user.login}

Returns the username of the user.

{user.email}

Returns the email address of the user.

{user.registerDate}

Returns the registration date of the user.

{user.groups}

Returns the IDs of the user groups comma-separated. Eg: 1,2,5.

{user.groupTitles}

Returns the titles of the user groups comma-separated. Eg: Public, Registered

{user.authLevels}

Returns the IDs of the user access levels comma-separated. Eg: 1,2,6

{user.authLevelTitles}

Returns the titles of the user access levels comma-separated. Eg: Public,Registered,Special

Custom Fields

To output a custom field value associated with the currently logged-in user, use:

{user.field.NAME}

Replace NAME with the name (not the label) of your custom field. For instance, if you have a custom field named age:

{user.field.age}

You can access additional properties of a custom field by appending the appropriate property name after the field name.

{user.field.NAME.rawvalue}
{user.field.NAME.id}

For advanced usage, including subforms, field labels and disabling content plugins check the full guide: Using Custom Fields in Smart Tags

Notes

The following rules apply:

• All Smart Tags in this set will return an empty string if the user is not logged in.
• For security purposes, the “password” property can’t be accessed.