How do I edit this so it displays the userid instead of the username/handle

Question

Been trying to edit this code which is for accessing user profiles when clicking their name,  i want to show the user id number instead of the username/handle

function qa_get_one_user_html($handle, $microformats)
  
 /*
  Return HTML to display for user with username $handle
 */
  {
   
   return strlen($handle) ? ('<A HREF="'.qa_path_html('user/'.$handle).
    '" CLASS="qa-user-link'.($microformats ? ' url nickname' : '').'">'.qa_html($handle).'</A>') : '';
  }

 

I know that.. for example.. www.question2answer.org/qa/user/234 will not work, but that's not what I'm trying to achieve, I plan to link the user to another page that requires their id

Answer 1

there are some new functions in 1.5, one of which is qa_handles_to_userids().  It's used as follows:

            $userids = qa_handles_to_userids(array($handle));
            $userid = $userids[$handle];

If I understand you correctly, this is probably the easiest way.

Comments

that was exactly what i needed. thanks!