How to get the user id by an email address?

$u = new User();

$u->retrieve_by_email_address($email_addr);

once you have the user bean you can get what you need.

FrancescaS

Even if it's a Sugar CE 6.5 Topic, is good to know how to do it in Sugat 7 too, using javascript

The complete code  in Sugar 7 is:

var userEmail = ''

var moduleName = "Users";

var filters = [{id: app.user.get("id")}];

var Users = App.data.createBeanCollection(moduleName)

var req = Users.fetch({"filter": filters});

     req.xhr.success(function (data) {

       if (data.records.length > 0) {

            // console.debug(data)

               userEmail = data.records[0].email[0].email_address

       }

});

// email object structure

email[0]

email_address           "email@example.com"

invalid_email                false

opt_out                          false

primary_address           true

reply_to_address           false

Hi Francesca,

That worked nice for me. Thank you !

And how could I detect if there are more than a user with the same email ?

Kind regards,

Ibon

Good question, I suppose we all assume that email is unique and no two users have the same email address...

Looking at the retrieve_by_email_address function in modules/Users/User.php it certainly seems that is the assumption.

FrancescaS

Many thanks Francesca.

best regards,

Ibon

Hi All,

As of the latest Sugar releases, you should use:

$sea = BeanFactory::newBean('EmailAddresses');
$sea->getBeansByEmailAddress($emailAddress);

More information on the various ways to work with email addresses can be found here:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_9.1/Architecture/Email_Addresses/index.…