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1. scotnery
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have wordpress installed on my site and I want to be able to use the logins from the wordpress to control the display of other things on the site (outside of the blog)

   I want users who are logged in to see a different menu and stuff like that.

   Is there a good way to do this? Check to see if users are logged in?

   currently, I'm including a bunch of wp files in every page to get this info. I'm afraid this is causing my processor problems.

   if($page_section != "news"){
   	$blog_location = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/news";
   	if (! isset($wp_did_header)):
   	if ( !file_exists( $blog_location . '/wp-config.php') ) {
   		if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'wp-admin') !== false) $path = '';
   		else $path = 'wp-admin/';
   
   		require_once( $blog_location . '/wp-includes/classes.php');
   		require_once( $blog_location . '/wp-includes/functions.php');
   		require_once( $blog_location . '/wp-includes/plugin.php');
   		wp_die("error message", "WordPress › Error");
   	}
   
   	$wp_did_header = true;
   
   	require_once( $blog_location . '/wp-config.php');
   
   	wp();
   
   	endif;
   
   }

2. scotnery
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   bump

3. dragly
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You may use the function is_user_logged_in to test this.
   

   <?php
   if (is_user_logged_in()){
       echo "Welcome, registered user!";
   }
   else {
       echo "Welcome, visitor!";
   };
   ?>

   More about this function here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

4. westondeboer
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   actually on non wordpress sites you just need to include the wp-header
   

   <?php
   require('./wp-blog-header.php');
   ?>

   And then you can do what dragly said
   

   <?php
   if (is_user_logged_in()){
       echo "Welcome, registered user!";
   }
   else {
       echo "Welcome, visitor!";
   };
   ?>

5. bjorsq
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I found this post today as I wanted to do this myself and thought I'd be lazy and find out if someone had already done it. I don't want to load wordpress for some URLs, so including the header was out (this bootstraps the whole wordpress installation anyway). This is what I came up with - it is not secure (as the cookies could easily be faked), but the stuff I want to hide isn't mission critical (I use the blog for that!) - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

   $logged_in = false;
   // checks are performed on usernames ONLY
   $allowed_users = array("user1", "user2");
   if (count($_COOKIE)) {
       foreach ($_COOKIE as $key => $val) {
           if (substr($key, 0, 19) === "wordpress_logged_in") {
               if (preg_match('/^(' . implode('|', $allowed_users) . ')/', $val, $matches)) {
                   $logged_in = true;
               }
           }
       }
   }

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