+function auth_get_userinfo($username){
+// Reads any other information for a user from external database,
+// then returns it in an array
+
+ global $CFG;
+ $config = (array) $CFG;
+
+ ADOLoadCode($CFG->auth_dbtype);
+ $authdb = &ADONewConnection();
+ $authdb->PConnect($CFG->auth_dbhost,$CFG->auth_dbuser,$CFG->auth_dbpass,$CFG->auth_dbname);
+
+ $fields = array("firstname", "lastname", "email", "phone1", "phone2",
+ "department", "address", "city", "country", "description",
+ "idnumber", "lang");
+
+ $result = array();
+
+ foreach ($fields as $field) {
+ if ($config["auth_user_$field"]) {
+ if ($rs = $authdb->Execute("SELECT ".$config["auth_user_$field"]." FROM $CFG->auth_dbtable
+ WHERE $CFG->auth_dbfielduser = '$username'")) {
+ if ( $rs->RecordCount() == 1 ) {
+ $result["$field"] = $rs->fields[$config["auth_user_$field"]];
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return $result;
+}
+