Question

I’m building my first site with drupal. And I made a custom user field: Full name.
Now I want to get the value of this fild in my template to say “Hello, %username%”.
How do I do that?

Answer 1

Depending on your setup/field name, something like this in template.php (preprocess function for the template file):

function mytheme_preprocess_page() {
  global $user;
  $user = user_load($user->uid); // Make sure the user object is fully loaded

  $vars['full_name'] = $user->field_full_name[LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['value'];
}

Then something like this in page.tpl.php:

if (isset($full_name) && !empty($full_name)) :
  echo 'Hello ' . $full_name;
endif;

Note that LANGUAGE_NONE may need to be changed if you’re running a multi-lingual site.