Hi Everybody.

I'm building a private messanging system which will be installed on top of our DotNetNuke installation.

In this system, i use prototype window to display the "send message" window on-top of the current displayed page. In this window there is basically an iframe showing an aspx page I've placed inside the dotnetnuke folder. The problem here is that I seem to be unable to user DotNetNuke method in this aspx page.

For example, in this page I'm trying to get the current logged in user's display name and put in the "sender" textbox. I do this using the following line of code: DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().DisplayName;

However, GetCurrentUserInfo() returns null in this case. I assume this is a result of the fact I do not inherit any dotnetnuke base classes (such as portalmodulebase).

Moreover, in some of the modules I'm developing for our website I am using the awesome ajaxpro class library, which allows me to define some methods as ajax method and thus call them from client-side javascript. Yet, in those methods too, I seem to be unable to access the GetCurrentUserInfo() and other dotnetnuke classes.

Is there any other way I can retrieve such information? Does anyone have any suggetions for me?

I thank in advance to anyone who spent the time reading this and trying to help.

Cheers!

Michael suggest using web services. But there is a tricky way. You can do it with client side using JavaScript. :)

When you open a .aspx from dotnetnuke site, then the dotnetnuke site will be the parent. Then you just refer to label or string inside the page of DNN which consist User Info. For example in standard DNN page if you open it in View Source, then you will got like this :

<a id="dnn_dnnUSER_cmdRegister" title="Click Here To Edit Your Account Profile" class="DNN_User" href=" __doPostBack('dnn$dnnUSER$cmdRegister','')">Agung Riyadi</a>

If you use this code in Javascript :

var usr = document.getElementById("dnn_dnnUSER_cmdRegister");

Then you got the refference into login name at runtime. So when you open it in a new window, just call using javascript.

HTH.

CMIIW.