From b4291f1e8e2326f5f1cbd97fa130d547f949b62d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Schie=C3=9Fle?= <schiessle@owncloud.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:00:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] allow to get the display name from an abitrary user

---
 lib/public/user.php | 4 ++--
 lib/user.php        | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/public/user.php b/lib/public/user.php
index a93e3a674a..411098ed5a 100644
--- a/lib/public/user.php
+++ b/lib/public/user.php
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ class User {
 	 * @brief get the user display name of the user currently logged in.
 	 * @return string display name
 	 */
-	public static function getDisplayName() {
-		return \OC_USER::getDisplayName();
+	public static function getDisplayName($user=null) {
+		return \OC_USER::getDisplayName($user);
 	}
 	
 	/**
diff --git a/lib/user.php b/lib/user.php
index 4cdf07dc3f..65f899aa27 100644
--- a/lib/user.php
+++ b/lib/user.php
@@ -350,8 +350,10 @@ class OC_User {
 	 * @brief get the display name of the user currently logged in.
 	 * @return string uid or false
 	 */
-	public static function getDisplayName() {
-		if( isset($_SESSION['display_name']) AND $_SESSION['display_name'] ) {
+	public static function getDisplayName($user=null) {
+		if ( $user ) {
+			return self::determineDisplayName($user);
+		} else if( isset($_SESSION['display_name']) AND $_SESSION['display_name'] ) {
 			return $_SESSION['display_name'];
 		}
 		else{