How to retrieve user id out of username

Question

I have a input field where you can type in the user id. When typed in, it can display images from that user.

How ever, I would like to type in a username instead of a userid to fetch the images. Does anyone know how I can do that, or which function I could write (how) for that?

Thanks in advance!

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:25:40Z

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UPDATE: Following this answer, a way to retrieve the ID with a given username https://stackoverflow.com/a/14979901/3032128

If you have a list of users with ids or something you can use autocomplete function from JQuery UI just as this example http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#custom-data where you will save the ID from the selected user in a hidden field such as

<input type="hidden" id="user_id">

that is the field that will be processed instead of the one you enter the ID or name,

your javascript will look like

$(document).ready(function() {

 //see JSON datasource for remote load if thats the case
 var users= [
 {
    value: "1",
    label: "JohnDoe"
 } // [...]
 ];
 $( "#user" ).autocomplete({
    minLength: 0,
    source: users,

    select: function( event, ui ) {
        $( "#user" ).val( ui.item.label );
        $( "#user_id" ).val( ui.item.value );
        return false;
    }
 })
});

EDIT: another useful link http://jelled.com/instagram/lookup-user-id

hope that helps

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:25

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answered Nov 26, 2013 at 11:18

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0846277 Over a year ago

Hello, I don't have a list of user id's. The meaning is that when you use my web application, you can check out pictures of a user with the name 'Mendes' for example.

G.Mendes Over a year ago

Hey, doing a quick search on stackoverflow I found this answer that pretty much is what you need to get user_id from username, guess that will do the part of looking up the ID so you can retrieve the pictures. Edited my answer stackoverflow.com/a/14979901/3032128

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