Need to see whether a user has admin rights

By NicolasH on 8 Nov 2006 at 07:29 UTC

I would like to expose certain areas of pages only to admins, just like Drupal does out of the box, but incorporate that in my template.

<?php if ($user == 'admin') { ?>
Important Stuff
<?php } ?>

What are the variables I have to look for?

Thanks

Comments

DriesK commented 8 November 2006 at 08:22

If you want to display something to certain roles, you could use

  global $user;
  $roles = $user->roles;
  if (in_array('rolename', $roles)) {
    print 'Important Stuff';
  }

If you mean user1:

  global $user;
  if ($user->uid == 1) {
    print 'Important Stuff';
  }

rszrama commented 8 November 2006 at 13:22

If there's a specific permission you're wanting to check against, you can also use the following:

  global $user;
  if (user_access('permission')) {
    print 'Important Stuff';
  }

hook_menu() uses that to restrict access based on role permissions.

NicolasH commented 9 November 2006 at 00:14

Many thanks, guys. Exactly what I was looking for...

Could someone point me to a resource that lists the variables that I can access on a page (like the $user array above)?

Cheers

rszrama commented 9 November 2006 at 07:24

Hmm.. I'm not sure if there is one. hehe Maybe someone else knows of one, but I've just learned by developing for Drupal. Learning as you go...