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Eirik Alfstad Johansen	Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:34:13 am Hi, [EDIT]: Apparently I was a little bit too quick to post. It hit me that there probably existed an is_logged_in attribute for the current_user, and that was of course correct. What's the best way to find out (in a template) whether a user is logged in or not? I've read about using "current_user" for the fetch function, but that doesn't give me the anonymous user id to compare with. Up until now, I've been using the following in my pagelayout.tpl: {section show=eq($current_user.contentobject_id,$anonymous_user_id)} Though there's no documentation of the variable $anonymous_user_id being passed to pagelayout.tpl, this works like a charm. For the other templates, however, this variable seems to be unavailable. So, what is the best way to detect whether a user is logged in or not? Thanks in advance ! Sincerely, Eirik Johansen Netmaking AS http://www.netmaking.no/ Sincerely, Eirik Alfstad Johansen http://www.netmaking.no/
Bruce Morrison	Tuesday 11 November 2003 2:31:13 pm Hi Eirik I've used the following on a number of sites... {let thisuser=fetch('user','current_user')} {section show=$thisuser.is_logged_in} <p>Welcome. You are logged in as {$thisuser.contentobject.name}</p> <p><a href="/user/logout">Logout</a></p> {section-else} <!-- login form goes here --> {/section} {/let} Cheers Bruce My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/ Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish

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Eirik Alfstad Johansen

Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:34:13 am

Hi,

[EDIT]: Apparently I was a little bit too quick to post. It hit me that there probably existed an is_logged_in attribute for the current_user, and that was of course correct.

What's the best way to find out (in a template) whether a user is logged in or not? I've read about using "current_user" for the fetch function, but that doesn't give me the anonymous user id to compare with.

Up until now, I've been using the following in my pagelayout.tpl:

{section show=eq($current_user.contentobject_id,$anonymous_user_id)}

Though there's no documentation of the variable $anonymous_user_id being passed to pagelayout.tpl, this works like a charm. For the other templates, however, this variable seems to be unavailable.

So, what is the best way to detect whether a user is logged in or not?

Thanks in advance !

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS

http://www.netmaking.no/

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Bruce Morrison

Tuesday 11 November 2003 2:31:13 pm

Hi Eirik

I've used the following on a number of sites...

{let thisuser=fetch('user','current_user')}
{section show=$thisuser.is_logged_in}
<p>Welcome. You are logged in as {$thisuser.contentobject.name}</p>
<p><a href="/user/logout">Logout</a></p>
{section-else}

{/section}
{/let}

Cheers
Bruce

My Blog: http://www.stuffandcontent.com/
Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/brucemorrison
Consolidated eZ Publish Feed : http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ez-publish

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:13:28
Script start
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:13:28
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:13:28
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 31 2025 06:13:28
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Peak memory usage	2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries	3

Timing points:

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Time accumulators:

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Ini load
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Check MTime	0.0010	7.7552	14	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0006	4.6443	1	0.0006
Mysqli_queries	0.0019	14.3259	3	0.0006
Looping result	0.0000	0.0698	1	0.0000
Template Total	0.0012	9.5	1	0.0012
Template load	0.0009	7.1088	1	0.0009
Template processing	0.0003	2.3176	1	0.0003
Override
Cache load	0.0007	5.1071	1	0.0007
General
dbfile	0.0014	10.4676	8	0.0002
String conversion	0.0000	0.0496	4	0.0000
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Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded	Edit	Override
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 1 Number of unique templates used: 1

Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs