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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Use $user->rid for the role ID, or $user->role for the role name. Be sure to declare $user as global.

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alexis commented

Hi, I'm using Drupal 4.5.2 with PHPTemplate and $user->role did not work for me.

I have users with multiples roles and used something like this to see who could edit some node ("administrador" is a role that I created):

global $user
foreach ($user->roles as $role) {
		if ($role == "administrador") {
			$canEdit = 1;
			break;
		}
	}

Alexis Bellido - Ventanazul web solutions

gncuster’s picture

gncuster commented

Thanks so much for your help!

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Yes, drupal has added support for multiple user roles since the original post was made.

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gncuster’s picture

gncuster commented

I am trying this same thing in a block, and using the example code. The $role is not ever getting filled. My code:

global $user;

$role = $user->role;
return t($role);

if (($role == "administrator") || ($role == "authenticated user") || ($role == "Historian")) {
return t('<a href="/forum/">Goto the Forum</a><br><a href="/image/">View Pictures</a><br><a href="/node/add/blog">Write a Blog</a><br><a href="/node/add/event">Post an event</a>');
} else {
return t('<a href="/image/">View Pictures</a><br><a href="/node/add/blog">Write a Blog</a><br><a href="/node/add/event">Post an event</a>');
}
jdlilly’s picture

jdlilly commented

I'm seeing the same issue:

global $user;
global $r = $user->role;

print $user;
print $r;

This prints "Object" for the user (not correct) and prints nothing for the role. Yet all the messages indicate the way to get role is $user->role.
Thanks for any ideas.

crunchywelch’s picture

crunchywelch commented

global $user;
print_r($user);

this will get you farther than print()....

jdlilly’s picture

jdlilly commented

OK, thanks. Sorry, I'm new at this.

I did print_r($user) and I got all of the details about the user. There wasn't a role value but there was a roles value. After some tinkering, I found this to work:

i f ($user->roles[2]) // I know [2] corresponds to the admin role
do Admin stuff
if ($user->roles[3]) // I know [3] corresponds to the designer role
do Designer stuff

Thanks again.

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rwreed commented

since roles is an array you might find this a more helpful way to use it.

if (in_array('administrator',$user->roles)) {
stuff goes here;
}

of course administrator may be replaced by any role.
hope that helps
Randy

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travischristopher commented

answered my own question

this page is pretty darn useful for themers
http://drupal.org/node/45774