Help pulling user info

zero

i want to make a menu for my home that has avatar, name, post count and reputation of the user logged in.
For some reason i just cant figure out how to do that, is there any global shortcodes or anything?

psychobunny

does this help? http://community.nodebb.org/api/user/psychobunny

psychobunny

to get current user's name, app.username. then its just a simple matter of doing something like $.get

trevor

O.o Interesting. @psychobunny thanks.

Scuzz

How about the same thing but for groups?
I need to find the gid of the admin group, is there a nice simple way of doing that?

julian

Not on the client side, but on server-side, you can run this:

var Groups = require('./groups');
Groups.getGidFromName('Administrators', function(err, gid) {
  console.log('admin group gid is', gid);
});

getByGroupName will also return the group object

Scuzz

@julian Thanks. I was using that last night but i was trying client side and couldnt figure out why it wasnt working

julian

Right-o -- group management is restricted to admin only, hence there are no public API endpoints for it.

If you are an admin, try this route: /api/admin/groups

psychobunny

I feel like getting group membership should be publically available, so we could write a groups page for example, or give users labels depending on who they are. (ex. coloured username / badge for admins)

Scuzz

@julian
Got it with this

socket.emit('admin.groups.get', gid, function(err, groupObj) {
});

Works like a charm.