What is the expression to access User's Contact record fields in Visualforce?

Question

What is the expression to access User's Contact record fields in Visualforce? I need in for Customer Portal.

Answer 1

You can get the Contact record in your controller by using the UserInfo object and something along the lines of the following query. Then you can reference it in your Visualforce page.

public class YourController {
    public Contact userContact { get; set; }

    public YourController() {
        userContact = [
            Select Id, Name /*etc.,*/
            From Contact
            Where Id In (Select ContactId
                         From User
                         Where Id = :UserInfo.getUserId())
        ];
    }

}

Answer 2

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_objects_user.htm

After quick look I believe {!$User.Contact.Email} etc should be ok.