get_user_id_from_string( string $email_or_login ): int

Description

Parameters

$email_or_loginstring

Either an email address or a login.

Return

int

Uses · 3

• _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
• is_email()Verifies that an email is valid.
• get_user_by()Retrieves user info by a given field.

Source

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345function get_user_id_from_string( $email_or_login ) {346	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.6.0', 'get_user_by()' );347 348	if ( is_email( $email_or_login ) )349		$user = get_user_by( 'email', $email_or_login );350	elseif ( is_numeric( $email_or_login ) )351		return $email_or_login;352	else353		$user = get_user_by( 'login', $email_or_login );354 355	if ( $user )356		return $user->ID;357	return 0;358}

History

Introduced in MU (3.0.0). Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

1. 6.7.7
2. 6.8.8
3. 6.9.7
4. 7.0.4
5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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