From 4f04f80237927c504db72b15f757d81094b211ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:37:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use API to retrieve user. fixes #11776

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@12935 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-admin/ms-edit.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-admin/ms-edit.php b/wp-admin/ms-edit.php
index 984a480e96..6db1443e51 100644
--- a/wp-admin/ms-edit.php
+++ b/wp-admin/ms-edit.php
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ switch ( $_GET['action'] ) {
 			if ( $mainblog_id ) {
 				reset( $site_admins );
 				foreach ( (array) $site_admins as $site_admin ) {
-					$uid = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT ID FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE user_login='{$site_admin}'" );
+					$uid = get_user_by('login', $site_admin);
 					if ( $uid )
-						add_user_to_blog( $mainblog_id, $uid, 'administrator' );
+						add_user_to_blog( $mainblog_id, $uid->ID, 'administrator' );
 				}
 			}
 			update_site_option( 'site_admins' , $site_admins );