Passing username or id from smf to another page

[stuartf]

Hi
I'm trying to link SMF to a guestmap and want to pass the user id or username from SMF to the page without having to append it to the end of a URL.

I can extract the $context variable and post what I want but I'd rather a find a better method.

Can't find anything in SSI to do it - I've also tried using session variables but doesn't seem to work.

Any simple pointers please?

[sm2k]

What's wrong with the method you mentioned?

[Dannii]

The $user_info and $context arrays that you get with SSI.php are the best way. What do you not like about them?

[stuartf]

Thanks

I've managed to do it by including SSI.php now and reading the variable from there .

I really like SMF an am very appreciative of the work that goes into it what I'm not so keen on is loading 50K+ to reload one variable 

If I've got this wrong I'm sure you'll tell me!

[sm2k]

If your web host uses a php script cache then the overhead should be minimal.