How to check if a user belongs to a particular role?

system · December 19, 2013, 2:24am

simpleone81 wrote on Thursday, December 19, 2013:

I’ve created a user and assign it a “front office” role. I want to modify left_nav.php so any user from this role can only see a few things in the left navigation menu. Does anyone know what API could be used to check if a user belongs to a particular role in this case?

thanks!

system · December 19, 2013, 3:13am

yehster wrote on Thursday, December 19, 2013:

github.com

openemr/openemr/blob/master/library/acl.inc#L125


// Section "placeholder" (Placeholder):
//   filler     Placeholder (Maintains empty ACLs)
//
// Section "nationnotes" (Nation Notes):
//   nn_configure     Nation Notes
//
// Section "patientportal" (Patient Portal):
//   portal     Patient Portal
//
// Section "menus" (Menus):
//   modle      Module
//
// Section "groups" (Groups):
//   gadd       View/Add/Update groups
//   gcalendar  View/Create/Update groups appointment in calendar
//   glog       Group encounter log
//   gdlog      Group detailed log of appointment in patient record
//   gm         Send message from the permanent group therapist to the personal therapist


if (isset($phpgacl_location)) {
  $GLOBALS['phpgacl_location_global'] = $phpgacl_location;

system · December 19, 2013, 4:34am

simpleone81 wrote on Thursday, December 19, 2013:

cool. Will explore this out. thanks!

system · December 19, 2013, 5:18am

simpleone81 wrote on Thursday, December 19, 2013:

never mind.