I've recently started working with xoops, with some friends - a hobby deal.

I've been researching ways to get a custom page to show user names.

So far, I've come across links/posts that have told me that I have to add 'mainfile', 'header', and 'footer' to pages in order for them to be recognized by xoops.

I've also read several posts that try to explain ideas like:

global $xoopsUser;

$name = $xoopsUser->getVar('uname');

Perhaps I've not understood the nature of the posts properly, but I cannot seem to find a way to get xoops to send me the user data.

What I'm attempting:
to be able to post a user's name in a block or custom page linked via xoops.

Any help in this general direction would be greatly appreciated.

Regards