referencing customcontent in user defined tag?

[sabernar]

I am creating a custom form handler for a very specialized form, and I want to reference some customcontent information (i.e. loginname, etc.) inside the user defined tag that will be displaying the form (i.e. prefilling user information like first name, last name, username, etc.).  How do I do this?

Thanks.

[sabernar]

Well, I went and did this:

global $gCms;
$cc = $gCms->modules['FrontEndUsers']['object'];
$fname = $cc->GetUserProperty('cfirstname');

and it works just fine.  It seems like there should be an easier way, but I wasn't able to find it. 

If anyone has any better methods to accomplish this, I'd love to hear them.

[calguy1000]

If you are using a user defined tag, then no, this is the defined way of doing things:

a) get a reference to a module instance
b) use the module's API (if it has one that is sufficient) to extract
    data that you need.

If you had been doin this in you template, then customcontent and frontendusers export variable such as this to smarty for you already.

[sabernar]

That was the first thing that I tried.  Could you give me a quick example?

[calguy1000]

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global $gCms;
$feusers =& $gCms->modules['FrontEndUsers']['object'];
$userid = $feusers->LoggedInId();
$fname = $feusers->GetUserProperty('cfirstname');

The api is all in frontendusers.api.php so you should see the functions you need in there.