By firecentaur on

Hi there, I need to check if a user is logged in, before executing some code when my javascript gets triggered on a button press
however, I have not been able to determine how to do this in javascript.

I have searched stack-overflow, and the web, and have found nothing that seams to work. I hope you can help!

I am using Drupal 6.16,

I have tried using this method:

var cookie_value = jQuery.cookie("DRUPAL_UID");
if(cookie_value != 0)
{
// execute some code...
}

but I always get "null"

I have thought of setting a variable in my PHP and passing it to javascript, but what happens when the user logs out?

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Comments

jaypan’s picture

jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Can you show us how you are you adding your javascript to the page?

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alfaguru’s picture

alfaguru commented

A javascript setting should be OK, using something like 

drupal_add_js(array('mymodule'=>array('loggedin' => $loggedin)), 'setting');

If you are using page caching then every cached page will be one built for an anonymous user, so they'll all have the correct value.