Get name for user number

[mikemcd]

I know you can get the current user name with 

var memberName = proboards.data('user').name;

You can get the user ID the same way. What if I want to get the user name of user 4 though? Can I get the proboards.data information of users who aren't the current user?

Thanks and Merry Christmas.

[mikemcd]

Darnit. I had a dream I checked my phone and read some answer from a mod about how to do it. Stupid brain.

[Chris]

If you have the user's numeric ID and the user in question resides somewhere on the page then you can scrub the HTML something like this:

var user_id=217348;
$(".user-link.user-"+user_id).attr("title").substr(1); //username
pb.text.escape_html($(".user-link.user-"+user_id).html()); //name


It's a long standing "wishlist" to be able to grab pertinent user info given only a numeric ID and it has been suggested that one could use the member select API to accomplish this in a roundabout way but that also requires user interaction and is not accessible to all users. The current method is to store that information yourself for later retrieval.