By monkfish4d on

Hello,

Is there a good way to test if the currently logged in user belongs to a role called Trade?

I know this will let me test if they're logged in...

if ($logged_in) {

Thanks for your help, N

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uzbekjon’s picture

uzbekjon commented

User object has roles array with role id as a key and role name as its value.

global $user;

$user->roles[ ROLE_ID ] = ROLE_NAME;

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monkfish4d’s picture

monkfish4d commented

Thanks for your reply...

I'm also new to PHP but I'm guessing that the $user->roles is an Array?

Is there a command to loop through it and test is Trade exists in there?

Thanks,
Nick

p.s. I'm thinking I need to be asking these Q's on a PHP forum? :)

barrett’s picture

barrett commented

No need to iterate through the array. You can use php's in_array function to do it for you:

if (in_array("TRADE", $user->roles)) {
  ...do something...
}

or you can search on the Role ID using array_key_exists

if(array_key_exists(<<the number of your Trade role>>,$user->roles)) {
  ...do something...
}
uzbekjon’s picture

uzbekjon commented

Sorry double post.

It seems that we don't have "delete own comments" permission :)

Gabriel R.’s picture

Gabriel R. commented

What you want is:

  global $user;

  // Check to see if $user has the administrator role.
  if (in_array('administrator', array_values($user->roles))) {
    // Do something.
  }

Thanks to http://www.bywombats.com/blog/ryan/10-25-2007/checking-if-drupal-user-ha...