get_userdatabylogin( string $user_login ): bool|object

Parameters

$user_loginstring

User's username

Return

bool|object

False on failure, User DB row object

Uses · 2

• _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
• get_user_by()Retrieves user info by a given field.

Source

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66function get_userdatabylogin($user_login) {67	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.3.0', "get_user_by('login')" );68	return get_user_by('login', $user_login);69}

History

Introduced in 0.71. 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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