Drupal: Add current user's role to body classes

Submitted by madmatter23 on Thu, 08/18/2011 - 08:49

If you'd like to change your site's appearance based on the current user's role, you can easily add the current user's role to the $body_classes array.

Just add this snippet to the yourTheme_preprocess_page function in your template.php file.

Drupal 6:

function grasmash_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) {
  $body_classes = array($vars['body_classes']);
   if ($vars['user']) {
    foreach($vars['user']->roles as $key => $role){
      $role_class = 'role-' . str_replace(' ', '-', $role);
      $body_classes[] = $role_class;
    }
  }
  $vars['body_classes'] = implode(' ', $body_classes); // Concatenate with spaces
}

Thanks to Anders Iversen for a Drupal 7 Version:

function grasmash_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if ($vars['user']) {
    foreach($vars['user']->roles as $key => $role){
      $vars['class'][] = 'role-' . drupal_html_class($role);
    }
  }
}

You may also want to check out my post on adding body classes based on user permissions.

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Comments

Anders Iversen

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 18:09

In drupal 7 things have changed a tiny bit.
You need to add it to the function ninesixty_preprocess_html instead:

function ninesixty_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
// ... there might be other stuff here ...
$body_classes = array($vars['classes_array']);
if ($vars['user']) {
foreach($vars['user']->roles as $key => $role){
$role_class = 'role-' . str_replace(' ', '-', $role);
$vars['classes_array'][] = $role_class;
}
}
}

Cheers :)

madmatter23

Wed, 07/18/2012 - 08:40

Thanks Anders. I've updated the article to include a Drupal 7 version.

Steve Kramer

Tue, 03/06/2012 - 00:27

Anders Iversen's solution for Drupal 7 worked great. I'm using the zen theme though and I had to change "vars" to "variables" in all instances.

synthetic

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 22:22

I could never get this to fully work in my theme, and found a viable alternative is to use context 3. I simply created one context for each role, works great.

Condition: User role (Select role(s) for which to set the context)
Reaction: Theme HTML (text in section class field will be printed in body class)

One limitation is that the

Craig Tockman

Wed, 11/28/2012 - 11:42

Same problem and same solution. Thanks.

Anonymous

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 22:26

One limitation is that the section class field is static text, though it worked just fine for my limited amount of roles & needs.

Flavio

Fri, 03/01/2013 - 08:06

Thank you very much. For Drupal 7 it works perfectly!

Remaye

Mon, 03/04/2013 - 03:35

Anders Iversen's solution works great except for all admin pages (pages /admin/*).
Any idea of a possible workaround ...? Thanks.

remaye

Mon, 03/04/2013 - 04:06

hum... sorry... of course it doesn't work : admin pages have a different theme !!
(shame on me)

Dee

Sat, 04/27/2013 - 18:59

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me in D7. I tried both the code in the article and comment. The roles names aren't showing up. I cleared cache, theme registry, everything. :(

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