Using Javascript to detect logged-in user?

Question

I need to insert specific javascript for ckeditor, and need to check in javascript if the user is logged in in q2a.

What is the best way to do this? Is there a cookie set for logged in users that I can read using javascript?

Answer 1

You can look for the cookie qa_session - it should be present if the user is logged in, and absent if not.

Comments

thank you. I found 4 cookies on my installation: PHPSESSID, qa_id, qa_noticed, qa_session - and will check for qa_session as you advised.

Answer 2

Use this javascript:

// if user is not logged in, no cookie is set
if(getCookie("qa_session") == null) {  ... }

function getCookie(name) {
    var nameEQ = name + "=";
    var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
    for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
        var c = ca[i];
        while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
    }
    return null;
}

hope it will help you :)
 

Comments

If we wanna use it for every page  where can we place this javascript code? qa-index.php calls it?

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you can put it in qa-content/qa-page.js

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