fetch user name from user_id or object_id

Monday 27 March 2006 1:50:17 am

What is the most direct method of getting a user name from the user_id (or object_id) of a user account?

I need to do this because Norman Leutner's excellent topauthors extension gets authors who have contributed the most but it provides only the user_id (which appears to be the same as the object_id). I need to look up the actual name of the author but all the fetch examples use node_ids rather than object_ids.

Monday 27 March 2006 2:40:14 am

Well, of course it is

let myuser=fetch('content',object,hash(object_id,$topten.user_id))

Now, why could I not find that easily in the documentation?

Thanks Kristof, you beat me to my own reply!