Need

Explanation

Method

1. Add the following custom.php to your tiki language directory, mine is in lang/en/ or lang/en-uk/
   

   <?php
   // custom.php pmc 2011/05/11
   global $user;
   if (!empty($user)) {
     global $userlib, $smarty;
     $email=$userlib->get_user_email($user);
     //create smarty variable assign it the value of the current user's email address
     $smarty->assign('curremail', $email); }

2. To use the smarty variable
   1. using Smarty plugin
      

      {SMARTY(name=>eval, var=>"{$curremail}")}{SMARTY}

   2. used in a smarty template
      

      email id is {$curremail}

Example

• html <form>
  {CODE(colors=bash)}

• retrieve field value, assign it an id for use in jquery
  

  {DIV(class=hidden, id=emailactual)}
   {SMARTY(name=>eval, var=>"{$curremail}")}{SMARTY}
  {DIV}

• insert the field value in the form
  

  {JQ()}
  if (!$jq("#emailid").val()) { $jq("#emailid").val($("#emailactual").text()); 
  }
  {JQ}