DotNetNuke Retrieving UserInfo for the given UserID

Question

Is there somthing in the dotnetnuke framework which will allow me to pass it a userId and it would return the UserInfo object filled with details of that userId.

If not what would be the normal way of doing this?

Answer 1

Try this (in DNN 5.x with C#)

private UserInfo _currentUser =
                   DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo();

Then use the UserInfo later...

int UserID = _currentUser.UserID

Answer 2

I used the way posted by bdukes with one modification: PortalId can be get from PortalSettings:

DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo user = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetUser(PortalSettings.PortalId, user_id, true);