Moodle Site Administrators IF statement

[cyberrant]

i need help and was wondering if anyone has any ideas on this one

 

i need to create an if statement for moodle that will look at the current user login and if they are a site administrator it will give me back a different result.

 

i know it will need to look like this

 

if ($user->???? == ???) {

WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEN

} else {

WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEN

}

 

does anyone have any ideas on how to fill the blanks?

Edited June 20, 2013 by cyberrant

[cyberrant]

answer found

 

if (is_siteadmin()) {

// do something for site admins

} else {

// do something else

}

[Marci]

That function is for use within core or for temporary fudges, and could end up deprecated without warning. The recommended method in a block / plugin etc is to check capabilities:

 

If user is an admin...

global $CFG;
require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/lib/accesslib.php');

if (has_capability('moodle/site:config, get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM))){
   echo 'Congrats, you're an admin!';
}

 

And, if user isn't an admin...

 

global $CFG, $OUTPUT;
require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/lib/accesslib.php');

if (!has_capability('moodle/site:config, get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM))){
   echo 'You're not an admin - bailing out';
   echo $OUTPUT->footer();
   die();
}

 

Core API Capabilities ref: Roles - MoodleDocs

Access API ref: Access API - MoodleDocs

Edited June 21, 2013 by Marci