how to tell if a user is logged in

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Gaia Reply #1, 18 years ago

Hi,

How can i tell if a user is logged in or not?

Something like:

if ( $isloggedin )
   echo 'You are a logged in user';
else
   echo 'You are not a logged in user';

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #2, 18 years ago

There are 2, [[membercheck]] and [[Personalize]] snippets in the default install for this kind of work.

Hope that helps.

regards,

zi

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Garry Nutting Reply #3, 18 years ago

For a programmatic check, you could use:

if ( $modx->getLoginUserType == '' ) {
   echo 'You are not a logged in user';
} else {
   echo 'You are a logged in user';
}

The $modx->getLoginUserType returns 3 possible values: ’web’ for a logged in web user, ’manager’ for a logged in Manager user, and ’’ for a non-logged in user.

Hope that helps, Garry

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sottwell Reply #4, 18 years ago

This function will only return "web" if it is being called from the front-end and a web user is logged in; it will only return "manager" if it is being called from the back-end and a manager user is logged in. It cannot be used to determine if a user is logged in as a manager user from a snippet in the front-end.

  function getLoginUserType(){
    if($this->isFrontend() && isset($_SESSION['webValidated'])) {
      return 'web';
    }
    else if($this->isBackend() && isset($_SESSION['mgrValidated'])) {
      return 'manager';
    }
    else return '';
  }

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