Establishing a CB $user object

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Sometimes $user has yet to be establish in your code; especially if you're using an external code from Community Builder such as a module, but $user is needed for many Community Builder API usages. So you'll need to establish the $user of the logged in user. To do this add the following to your code, which will generate $user as used in Community Builder  Plugins.

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Global $_CB_framework;
 
$myId = $_CB_framework->myId();
$user =& CBuser::getUserDataInstance( $myId );

The above is great for establishing the $user object if this is the very basic you need. However with just the object you can't perform typical CBUser API such as replacement API to allow substitutions on a text string to be parsed. The below will allow usage of CBUser API as well as establish the $user object.

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Global $_CB_framework;
 
$myId = $_CB_framework->myId();
$cbUser =& CBuser::getInstance( $myId );
 
if ( ! $cbUser ) {
 $cbUser =& CBuser::getInstance( null );
}
 
$user =& $cbUser->getUserData();

Don't forget to add $_CB_framework global if it is yet to be established or it won't function and you'll receive an error. You can remove the $user check if you do not wish your code to stop, but keep note that all $user data will be null so be sure to compensate for this in your code!