interface AccountInterface in Zircon Profile 8

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

• interface \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface

Related topics

User accounts, permissions, and roles

API for user accounts, access checking, roles, and permissions.

224 files declare their use of AccountInterface

AccessArgumentsResolverFactory.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Access/AccessArgumentsResolverFactory.php

Contains \Drupal\Core\Access\AccessArgumentsResolverFactory.

AccessArgumentsResolverFactoryInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Access/AccessArgumentsResolverFactoryInterface.php

Contains \Drupal\Core\Access\AccessArgumentsResolverFactoryInterface.

AccessAwareRouter.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Routing/AccessAwareRouter.php

Contains \Drupal\Core\Routing\AccessAwareRouter.

AccessDeniedSubscriber.php in core/modules/user/src/EventSubscriber/AccessDeniedSubscriber.php

Contains \Drupal\user\EventSubscriber\AccessDeniedSubscriber.

AccessibleInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Access/AccessibleInterface.php

Contains \Drupal\Core\Access\AccessibleInterface.

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File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Session/AccountInterface.php, line 18

Contains \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Session

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
   *   The language code that is preferred by the account. 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
   *   $fallback_to_default is FALSE).
   */
  public function getPreferredLangcode($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 login. For
   *   any other display purposes, use
   *   \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getDisplayName() instead.
   *
   * @deprecated in Drupal 8.0.0, will be removed before Drupal 9.0.0.
   *   Use \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface::getAccountName() or
   *   \Drupal\user\UserInterface::getDisplayName() instead.
   */
  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
   *   The 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

Name	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