Get role from UID
joachim - January 22, 2008 - 09:46
What's the best way to get user roles for a given UID -- or rather, check the given UID has a particular role?
I want to check something in a theme, based on whether the node's author belongs to a role.
You could do a user load ...
You could do a user load to get the user object, the roles will be available in the object - for example
$account = user_load(array('uid'=>$uid));print_r($account->roles);
But - it is generally bad form to check roles explicitly - instead you should really check for a particular permission, and then assign that permission to the role in question, this then allows much greater flexibility and makes your code more portable
$account=user_load(array('uid'=>$uid));if (user_access('administer site configuration',$account)){
//do your stuff here
}
The above will check to see if the user has the "administer site configuration" permission ...
Mike,
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