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flyboeing 09 Jan, 2015

Hello all,

I have a custom list with a html table for showing the data. The guests can see the contents of the table, but I would like to hide the column "edit" for them, so that column is only visible for administrators.

Back in the days that I used Joomla 1.6 I had the following code:


<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
if ( $user->gid ) {
  $edit_record = "
<td'><b>Edit</b></td>"; 
} else {
  $edit_record = "";
}
?>
<?php echo $edit_record; ?>

But this doesn't seem to work in Joomla 2.5 and 3.0.

Can someone help me with this?

Regards,
Ruud

Gr

GreyHead 10 Jan, 2015

Hi Ruud,

The problem is that Joomla! 2.5 and 3 allow the user to belong to more than one User group.

You can use $user->getUserGroups(); which will return an array of Group IDs. You can then use in_array() to see if there is a particular group in the array.

Bob

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flyboeing 13 Jan, 2015

Answer

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your reply.

I found a solution:


<?php
    $user =& JFactory::getUser();
    foreach ($user->groups as $key => $value){      
    }
// 8 is the ID for super users
if ($key == "8") {
     echo "You are a super user!";
 } else {
     echo "Too bad, you are no super user!";
 }
 ?>

This is working for me, hope this will help others!🙂

Regards,
Ruud

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