Find user ID by username

Hello,
Does anyone know of a way to find out the user ID of a particular username on this forum?

For instance, I would enter into the script a username, it would then find out the user ID.

Thanks

 

function fetch_userid($username)
{
	preg_match(
		'/&u=(\d+)"/',
		file_get_contents('http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?username='. rawurlencode($username)),
		$match
	);
	return $match[1];
}


echo fetch_userid('nico_swd');

PHP:

 

Thanks for that
I had no idea you could use that in the member.php file lol