Joomla 3.0 not echoing usertype

Question

I made the following code to get some user variables in a flash app:

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
echo $user->get('username') ;
echo $user->get('id') ;
echo $user->get('name') ;
echo $user->get('usertype') ;
?>

Everything but usertype works, for some reason. Usertype is vital to be able to monetize my app. I followed this as a reference, so it seems alright:

http://docs.joomla.org/Accessing_the_current_user_object

Whats wrong here?

Answer 1

Right, I've had a look around and I can't actually find a decent solution that simply provides you with the name of the group that the user belongs to. Everything else gives you an array or the ID, so I have written a simple function that will get you exactly what you want:

function getUserGroup($userId){     
     $db = JFactory::getDbo();

     $query  = $db->getQuery(true);
     $query->select('title')
     ->from('#__user_usergroup_map AS map')
     ->where('map.user_id = '.(int) $userId)
     ->leftJoin('#__usergroups AS a ON a.id = map.group_id');

     $db->setQuery($query);
     $result = $db->loadResult();

     return $result;
}

echo getUserGroup($user->id);

Hope this helps