$user object

clipped from mameou.wordpress.com Drupal: Working With Users The $user Object The user is represented as the global $user object, which is created during the session phase of the bootstrap process. The $user object is a join of all the fields in the users table and sessions table on the user’s ID. The anonymous user is created by drupal_anonymous_user() and looks like this: function drupal_anonymous_user($session='') { $user = new stdClass(); $user->uid = 0; $user->hostname = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $user->roles = array(); $user->roles[DRUPAL_ANONYMOUS_RID] = ‘anonymous user’; $user->session = $session; return $user; } To see the contents of the $user object, do global $user; print_r $user;