syntax to find a member
 

I can use http://domainname.com/member.php?u=14196
to find a member by their user ID

what syntax would I use to find a user by their username?

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?username=pattycake" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/membe...name=pattycake</a>

thank you

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That works great but how about if I am in the admin panel?
Link in admin is:
http://domainname.com/admincp/user.php?do=edit&u=146110

how about same link in the admin cp for username (and/or email address)

You can't directly link to a user's profile in the admincp with a username or email.

That's true, but you can do this:

and it will redirect to the "edit user" page if there is only one user found. You could also add &submit=Exact%20Match to limit it to exact user names (probably what you'd want to do if you're trying to link to a specific user).

Also you should be able to replace user[username] with user[email] to search by email.

If you're writing a php script to do this, you'd obviously want to url encode the user name or email address.

PERFECT !! Thats exactly what I needed.

Wow, I didn't know that. :)