By syedfarhansajid on

Since menu templates do not have direct access to the user object, we need to pass it manually in my_theme.theme

function my_theme_preprocess_menu(&$variables) {
$current_user = \Drupal::currentUser();
$variables['current_user_name'] = $current_user->getDisplayName();
}

Now, you can use it inside menu.html.twig

<p>Hello, {{ current_user_name }}!</p>
 

⋅ Categories: Drupal 11.x, Drupal 10.x, Drupal 9.x, Drupal 8.x

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stefan lehmann’s picture

stefan lehmann
Primary language German
Location Hobart
commented

Pretty sure this will fail as soon as any caching is enabled. For that to work you'd have to add the necessary caching information and return a render array instead of just the user name value, see: https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-apis/render-api/cacheability-of-rende...