[eluser]darkhouse[/eluser]
What a session variable? I like Colin's idea of a user library that gets a user object, which obviously would contain the username, and that probably is the BEST solution, but probably the most work also. And it would likely work with a session anyways, like storing the user id in a session, and getting the data based on that... so if all you need is the username, why not just store that in the session also?