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interface AccountInterface in Drupal 8

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Session/AccountInterface.php \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface

Defines an account interface which represents the current user.

Defines an object that has a user id, roles and can have session data. The interface is implemented both by the global session and the user entity.

Hierarchy

Expanded class hierarchy of AccountInterface

All classes that implement AccountInterface

Related topics

367 files declare their use of AccountInterface
AccessArgumentsResolverFactory.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Access/AccessArgumentsResolverFactory.php
AccessArgumentsResolverFactoryInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Access/AccessArgumentsResolverFactoryInterface.php
AccessAwareRouter.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Routing/AccessAwareRouter.php
AccessDeniedSubscriber.php in core/modules/user/src/EventSubscriber/AccessDeniedSubscriber.php
AccessGroupAnd.php in core/modules/block_content/src/Access/AccessGroupAnd.php

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Session/AccountInterface.php, line 13

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Session
View source
interface AccountInterface {

  /**
   * Role ID for anonymous users.
   */
  const ANONYMOUS_ROLE = 'anonymous';

  /**
   * Role ID for authenticated users.
   */
  const AUTHENTICATED_ROLE = 'authenticated';

  /**
   * Returns the user ID or 0 for anonymous.
   *
   * @return int
   *   The user ID.
   */
  public function id();

  /**
   * Returns a list of roles.
   *
   * @param bool $exclude_locked_roles
   *   (optional) If TRUE, locked roles (anonymous/authenticated) are not returned.
   *
   * @return array
   *   List of role IDs.
   */
  public function getRoles($exclude_locked_roles = FALSE);

  /**
   * Checks whether a user has a certain permission.
   *
   * @param string $permission
   *   The permission string to check.
   *
   * @return bool
   *   TRUE if the user has the permission, FALSE otherwise.
   */
  public function hasPermission($permission);

  /**
   * Returns TRUE if the account is authenticated.
   *
   * @return bool
   *   TRUE if the account is authenticated.
   */
  public function isAuthenticated();

  /**
   * Returns TRUE if the account is anonymous.
   *
   * @return bool
   *   TRUE if the account is anonymous.
   */
  public function isAnonymous();

  /**
   * Returns the preferred language code of the account.
   *
   * @param bool $fallback_to_default
   *   (optional) Whether the return value will fall back to the site default
   *   language if the user has no language preference.
   *
   * @return string
   *   Returned language code depends upon following:
   *   - The user preferred language code is returned if set in the account.
   *   - If the user has no preferred language and $fallback_to_default is TRUE
   *     then the site default language code is returned.
   *   - If the user has no preferred language and $fallback_to_default is FALSE
   *     then empty string is returned.
   */
  public function getPreferredLangcode($fallback_to_default = TRUE);

  /**
   * Returns the preferred administrative language code of the account.
   *
   * Defines which language is used on administrative pages.
   *
   * @param bool $fallback_to_default
   *   (optional) Whether the return value will fall back to the site default
   *   language if the user has no administration language preference.
   *
   * @return string
   *   The language code that is preferred by the account for administration
   *   pages. If the preferred language is not set or is a language not
   *   configured anymore on the site, the site default is returned or an empty
   *   string is returned (if $fallback_to_default is FALSE).
   */
  public function getPreferredAdminLangcode($fallback_to_default = TRUE);

  /**
   * Returns the unaltered login name of this account.
   *
   * @return string
   *   An unsanitized plain-text string with the name of this account that is
   *   used to log in. Only display this name to admins and to the user who owns
   *   this account, and only in the context of the name used to log in. For
   *   any other display purposes, use
   *   \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getDisplayName() instead.
   *
   * @deprecated in drupal:8.0.0 and is removed from drupal:9.0.0.
   *   Use \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getAccountName() or
   *   \Drupal\user\UserInterface::getDisplayName() instead.
   *
   * @see https://www.drupal.org/node/2572493
   */
  public function getUsername();

  /**
   * Returns the unaltered login name of this account.
   *
   * @return string
   *   An unsanitized plain-text string with the name of this account that is
   *   used to log in. Only display this name to admins and to the user who owns
   *   this account, and only in the context of the name used to login. For
   *   any other display purposes, use
   *   \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getDisplayName() instead.
   */
  public function getAccountName();

  /**
   * Returns the display name of this account.
   *
   * By default, the passed-in object's 'name' property is used if it exists, or
   * else, the site-defined value for the 'anonymous' variable. However, a
   * module may override this by implementing
   * hook_user_format_name_alter(&$name, $account).
   *
   * @see hook_user_format_name_alter()
   *
   * @return string|\Drupal\Component\Render\MarkupInterface
   *   Either a string that will be auto-escaped on output or a
   *   MarkupInterface object that is already HTML escaped. Either is safe
   *   to be printed within HTML fragments.
   */
  public function getDisplayName();

  /**
   * Returns the email address of this account.
   *
   * @return string|null
   *   The email address, or NULL if the account is anonymous or the user does
   *   not have an email address.
   */
  public function getEmail();

  /**
   * Returns the timezone of this account.
   *
   * @return string
   *   Name of the timezone.
   */
  public function getTimeZone();

  /**
   * The timestamp when the account last accessed the site.
   *
   * A value of 0 means the user has never accessed the site.
   *
   * @return int
   *   Timestamp of the last access.
   */
  public function getLastAccessedTime();

}

Members

Namesort descending Modifiers Type Description Overrides
AccountInterface::ANONYMOUS_ROLE constant Role ID for anonymous users.
AccountInterface::AUTHENTICATED_ROLE constant Role ID for authenticated users.
AccountInterface::getAccountName public function Returns the unaltered login name of this account. 3
AccountInterface::getDisplayName public function Returns the display name of this account. 3
AccountInterface::getEmail public function Returns the email address of this account. 3
AccountInterface::getLastAccessedTime public function The timestamp when the account last accessed the site. 3
AccountInterface::getPreferredAdminLangcode public function Returns the preferred administrative language code of the account. 3
AccountInterface::getPreferredLangcode public function Returns the preferred language code of the account. 3
AccountInterface::getRoles public function Returns a list of roles. 3
AccountInterface::getTimeZone public function Returns the timezone of this account. 3
AccountInterface::getUsername Deprecated public function Returns the unaltered login name of this account. 3
AccountInterface::hasPermission public function Checks whether a user has a certain permission. 3
AccountInterface::id public function Returns the user ID or 0 for anonymous. 2
AccountInterface::isAnonymous public function Returns TRUE if the account is anonymous. 3
AccountInterface::isAuthenticated public function Returns TRUE if the account is authenticated. 3