By xano on

I'd like to know if there is a way to determine the roles of a given user without using a customized SQL query for that. In the forum, the only thing I've found was $user->role (which worked for that topic starter who was using Drupal 4.7) but that doesn't do the trick for me.

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To get the name of the role, you would have to do a simple query.

Here's what I put in a block to get the role name:

<?php
  global $user;
  $role = db_result(db_query('SELECT r.name FROM {users_roles} ur LEFT JOIN {role} r ON r.rid=ur.rid WHERE ur.uid=%d LIMIT 1', $user->uid));
  print $role;
?>

If you just want the role id ("rid"), you can leave out the join stuff.

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Hey Nancy,

I've already done this with a customized SQL query in the past, but now I've found this solution for 4.7 I was wondering if there was something similar for 5.x. Would be pretty stupid if there's a feature in 4.7 for this which doesn't exist in 5.x anymore.

Thanks for the tip anyway :-)

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I just looked at user.module and came up with this:

<?php
  global $user;
  print 'roles: '.implode(', ', $user->roles);
?>

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xano
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okaaaaaaaaaaay............. I'm pretty sure I tried print_r($user->roles) to test the variable, but no result showed itself on screen. Must have done something wrong. Thanks for giving me this piece of code. Now I know it was I who was wrong and it wasn't Drupal :-P

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Jerimee commented

Q) but what does implode do?
A) it returns a string created by joining every element in an array with separator (in this case ', ')

Q) how do I modify this code to ignore the default authenticated role?
A) ???

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implode(', ', array_slice($user->roles, 1))

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-slice.php

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Jerimee commented

awesome

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godman commented

Power Awesome

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charlie-s commented

If you want to do a check on a users role when multiple roles may exist for that user, you can do it with in_array():

if(in_array('role_you_want_to_check_for', $user->roles)) {
     return true;
} else {
     return false;
}
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zietbukuel commented

Thanks a lot, I've been looking for this :)

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Juan Timaná

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czeky commented

is it possible in similar way to check for role id? my roles doesn't have computer friendly names.. so I'd like to compare rol IDs.

thanx

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jeni_dc commented

I'm a bit late here, but this works for me:

global $user;
if (array_key_exists('ROLE ID', $user->roles)) {
     return true;
} else {
     return false;
}
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nancydru
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Why not just use user_access() if you want to know if the current user has that permission.

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AlastairG commented

They might not be checking for permissions. I found this page while looking to set dynamic product pricing based on a retailer's role. They all have permission to view the product page but they don't always get the same margin.

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nirvale commented

hello

i am not php programer, and new in drupal of course, actually i'm ussing the pdf id card module, works fine, but i can't print the role user. i mean, i have many profiles with different roles to print.

the code is

$pdf->SetFont('freeserif','',8);
$pdf->setxy(53,5);
$pdf->Image($account->picture, 4,18, 33,40);
$pdf->Cell(100,33,strtoupper($account->profile_1nombre),0,0,"left",0,0);
$pdf->setxy(80,5);
$pdf->Cell(100,33,strtoupper($account->profile_2nombre),0,0,"right",0,0);
$pdf->setxy(53,5);
$pdf->Cell(100,43,strtoupper($account->profile_1apellido),0,0,"right",0,0);
$pdf->setxy(80,5);
$pdf->Cell(100,43,strtoupper($account->profile_2apellido),0,0,"right",0,0);
$pdf->setxy(53,5);
$pdf->Cell(100,63,strtoupper( THE MISSING CODE),0,0,"right",0,0);

Excuse my english, spanish is my native laguage ...

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cmsproducer commented

As long as you have the UID (User ID) you want to get roles for, you can user the user_load function to get all the values attached to that UID, and then print_r the roles array to see what is in it... like this:

$user_current_uid = // insert the userID here;
$user_details = user_load($user_current_uid);
// output all the user roles arrays items
print_r($user_details->roles)
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stefgosselin commented

user_load is a *very* expensive function call. Use sparingly. The other solution posted above does not require these and is probably much more efficient.

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User_load takes a different parameter in D6.

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I'm going to hazard a guess that $account (line 3) is the user object. $account->roles will have all the user's roles in it.

NancyDru

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alesr commented

If you have PHP filter module enabled, you can make a block named "User roles" and put this in content:

<?php
global $user;
foreach($user->roles as $role) {
print "<div>".$role."</div>";
}
?>

Don't forget to select PHP code as a Text format!
This will print all roles of a curent user.
Works on D7. Use this for testing purposes.

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adigunsherif commented

Why do you need to write all these codes when you can simply use views!

Views of type user. In d field, u choose user:name and user:role.

Voila! You have what you need. Isn't that very simple?