Username of the current WordPress user is stored in this global variable. It is set using the cookie in the pluggable functions set_current_user($id, $name='') and get_currentuserinfo() defined in [wordpress root folder]/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php.
It is used to get userdata using the username., e.g., $userdata = get_userdatabylogin($user_login);. The plugin and theme authors need not use this, as the user data is already available in the current_user and other global variables..
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June 25, 2006 at 5:49 pm
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