[wp-hackers] User Roles

[Dougal Campbell]

Andy Staines wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I must have missed the obvious on my trawl through the
> code but can someone tell me the 'correct' way to get the currently
> logged in users 'role'. Don't need the capabilities or levels - just
> the role. The methods I am using seem somewhat long-winded...
> Thanks
> Andy
In wp-admin/users.php, it looks like we do something like this:

  $user = new WP_User($id);
  $roles = $user->roles; // $roles will be an array

Of course, under the covers, it's querying capabilities, and comparing
them to the list of roles from the '*_user_roles' entry in the options
table.


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