Binding People Picker Value to SharePoint List Using C#

This code snippet is for binding People Picker value to SharePoint List using C#.

Binding People Picker value to SharePoint List using C#

HTML code:

<SharePoint:PeopleEditor ID="pplEditor" runat="server" Rows="1" PlaceButtonsUnderEntityEditor="false" Width="250px" SelectionSet="User" />

Function to get user value from people editor to bind to list column:

public SPFieldUserValue GetSPUserValue(SPWeb objSPWeb, PeopleEditor pplEditor)
{
    try
    {
        SPFieldUserValue userValue = null;
        if (pplEditor.Entities.Count > 0)
        {
            PickerEntity pplAssigned = (PickerEntity) pplEditor.Entities[0];
            SPUser webUser = objSPWeb.EnsureUser(pplAssigned.Key);
            userValue = new SPFieldUserValue(objSPWeb, webUser.ID, webUser.Name);
        }
        return userValue;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        // Log exception
    }
}

Calling the function to bind the user value to list item:

SPListItemCollection listItems = web.Lists["ListName"].Items;
SPListItem item = listItems.Add();
item["ListColumn"] = GetSPUserValue(web, myPPLControl);