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Has the way to determine if a user is logged in changed in 5.7/5.8?

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Hi There,

I'm starting to migrate a 5.6 theme over to 5.8 but see an error: 'Call to a member function isLoggedIn() on null'.

The theme's footer.php checks if someone is logged in like this.
global $u;
if ($u->isLoggedIn()) {
    // do something
}

After searching, it doesn't look anything has changed in 5.8. Is there something that needs loading maybe?

Any help or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Ben
 
hutman replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
hutman
I've always done

$u = new User();

Rather than the global.
cmscss replied on at Permalink Reply
Awesome, worked a treat, thanks heaps.