By Jboo on

Hi,

I'm trying to display a block on the homepage for logged in users. I've done this using mini panels but would like to display something like "Welcome (USER)". I can't seem to do this in the panel settings so can I create a block that gets the username of the currently logged in user using PHP to display on the homepage?

Any help is appreciated.

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arh1’s picture

arh1 commented

in your theme, you can do this easily with the $user object.

e.g. add something like this to page.tpl.php:

<?php
if ($user->uid) {
  print 'Welcome '.$user->name.'!';
}
else {
  print 'Welcome, Guest!';
}
?>
Jboo’s picture

Jboo commented

Thanks for the reply. What I need to do is insert it using blocks and couldn't get this to work at first. However, I altered it slightly so it works now, but is this correct?

<?php
global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
  print 'Welcome back '.$user->name.'!';
}
?>

Thanks for your help.

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sankarsvks88’s picture

sankarsvks88 commented

Go to Structure->Block->Add block.

Give block title->block description>Block Body. copy this code and paste it and change the "Text format" to the format which supports Php code.

Done!

werlincorp’s picture

werlincorp commented

How I do it in Garland Theme? instead of display the username i want to display Full name ie; Hi, Full Name ... i also created field in profiles.. called profile_fullname

Suyash Pancholi’s picture

Suyash Pancholi commented

Thank You so Much it's working

lunk rat’s picture

lunk rat commented

See https://drupal.org/comment/8499219#comment-8499219

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