How to get user info

cblumen

All,

this is maybe an embarrassing question but when it comes to Perl programming I'm actually a newbie.

Within a Perl script I would like to get the info which user is currently logged in. The script will be invoked from a custom menu item and based on the users role I would like to do different things in the script. I know how to access the vpath in the script - by
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $vpath= $cgi->param("vpath");

Can I access the user object in the same way and if yes, what is the name of the param? I tried "user", "user_name",... Nothing worked and I also couldn't find anything in the docs.

Once I would have the user I could also check the role for that user in the vpath, e.g. by
my $isAuthor = TeamSite::Flexroles::is_user_in_roles($user, $vpath, "Author");

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Christian

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All, this is maybe an embarrassing question but when it comes to Perl programming I'm actually a newbie. Within a Perl script I would like to get the info which user is currently logged in. The script will be invoked from a custom menu item and based on the users role I would like to do different things in the script. I know how to access the vpath in the script - by my $cgi = new CGI; my $vpath= $cgi->param("vpath"); Can I access the user object in the same way and if yes, what is the name of the param? I tried "user", "user_name",... Nothing worked and I also couldn't find anything in the docs. Once I would have the user I could also check the role for that user in the vpath, e.g. by my $isAuthor = TeamSite::Flexroles::is_user_in_roles($user, $vpath, "Author"); Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Christian

Change your custm menu reference temporarily to "/iw-bin/show_env.cgi". Run it and see what you get. That'll
show you all the information that your Script can obtain from the posted Form, Cookies and Environment Variables.