public function User::getUsername in Drupal 8

Returns the unaltered login name of this account.

Return value

string An unsanitized plain-text string with the name of this account that is used to log in. Only display this name to admins and to the user who owns this account, and only in the context of the name used to log in. For any other display purposes, use \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getDisplayName() instead.

Overrides AccountInterface::getUsername

See also

https://www.drupal.org/node/2572493

File

core/modules/user/src/Entity/User.php, line 375

Class

User

Defines the user entity class.

Namespace

Drupal\user\Entity

Code

public function getUsername() {
  @trigger_error('\\Drupal\\Core\\Session\\AccountInterface::getUsername() is deprecated in Drupal 8.0.0, will be removed before Drupal 9.0.0. Use \\Drupal\\Core\\Session\\AccountInterface::getAccountName() or \\Drupal\\user\\UserInterface::getDisplayName() instead. See https://www.drupal.org/node/2572493', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
  return $this
    ->getAccountName();
}