Get author ID of a post in wordpress

Question

Im creating a loop where it pulls info about a users activity. the code is on the author page and what i want to to is get the current author ID, so based on what author page th

Answer 1

Try with this :

post_author; ?>

it will give you current author id.

or this one will helps you more:

global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();                      

$args = array(
    'author'        =>  $current_user->ID, // I could also use $user_ID, right?        
    );

// get his posts 'ASC'
$current_user_posts = get_posts( $args );

Thanks.