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Temor wrote:I could write a short tutorial on this subject and post it to the forums if you'd like. Saves Jacek the time to make a video about it. It's really simple so there's really no need for a video tutorial.

jacek wrote:I could. The login system has already had too many addons though

$sql = 'SELECT `user_name` FROM `users` WHERE `user_id` = '{$username}'';

function fetch_current_user_id($username){
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$sql = 'SELECT `user_id` FROM `users` WHERE `user_name` = '{$username}'';
 
$result = mysql_query($sql);
 
return mysql_result($result, 0);
 
}