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 in the site's date format, e.g. 2025-03-14 09:30.

{user.groups}

Returns the IDs of the user groups comma-separated, e.g. 1,2,5.

{user.groupTitles}

Returns the titles of the user groups comma-separated, e.g. Public,Registered.

{user.authLevels}

Returns the IDs of the user access levels comma-separated, e.g. 1,2,6.

{user.authLevelTitles}

Returns the titles of the user access levels comma-separated, e.g. 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, see Using Custom Fields in Smart Tags.

Profile fields

To output fields from Joomla's User - Profile plugin, like the user's address, city or phone number, see the User Profile Smart Tags.

Notes

The following rules apply:

• All Smart Tags in this set return an empty string if the user isn't logged in. The group and access level Smart Tags are the exception: for a guest they return the guest's groups and levels, by default Public and Guest.
• For security purposes, the “password” property can’t be accessed.