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Scope of $current_user variable

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James Ward

Thursday 08 December 2005 11:49:25 am

I have 2 pieces of code on the same page which use the $current_user variable.

In top.tpl (at the top of the page) I check to see if a user is logged in with the following code:

{if eq($current_user.contentobject_id,$anonymous_user_id)}

This check always behaves correctly and if I output the two id's I can see they are correct.

Further down on the same page, included in another file I do a similar check in product.tpl. However this check always fails and if I output the ids they have no value.

I tried adding # in front of the variable names in case of a scope issue. There is no mention of when these variables will NOT be available on the doc page:
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/templates/the_pagelayout/variables_in_pagelayout

Any thoughts on why these variables cease to exist?

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Łukasz Serwatka

Monday 12 December 2005 12:02:34 am

Hi James,

This variables are available only in pagelayout.tpl. What you can do in product.tpl is fetch current user and compare it with variable AnonymousUserID from site.ini for example:

{def $current_user=fetch( user, current_user )}

{if eq( $current_user.contentobject.id, 
                 ezini( 'UserSettings', 'AnonymousUserID', 'site.ini' ) )}
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