- If they are a student on any course page, flag that they are a student.
- If they are a site admin flag that they are a site admin.
- If they are a teacher on any course, flag that they are a teacher
- If they are a [insert any role] flag that they are a [*role]
- If they have multiple roles assign flag each role in the array.
- If the user is a non-editing teacher on one course and a student on another, but also a site admin, flag all three
I require a function to output the user 'roles' as an array, regardless of what page they are on. Examples:
This feature exists in Moodle, but I don't onw how you get there through the navigtion (I think it might have got lost. I think there should be a link to this from the user's profile - with the link only appearing to people like admins who are allowed to seet it.)
Anyway, you can access it directly by typing a URL likehttps://moodle.example.com/admin/roles/usersroles.php?courseid=1&userid=12345
You can access that if you have any of the capabilities 'moodle/role:assign', 'moodle/role:safeoverride', 'moodle/role:override' or 'moodle/role:manage' in the user's context. (Also, I don't know why courseid is required in the URL, but it is. However, passing 1 (site id) seems to work.)
Anyway, you can access it directly by typing a URL likehttps://moodle.example.com/admin/roles/usersroles.php?courseid=1&userid=12345
You can access that if you have any of the capabilities 'moodle/role:assign', 'moodle/role:safeoverride', 'moodle/role:override' or 'moodle/role:manage' in the user's context. (Also, I don't know why courseid is required in the URL, but it is. However, passing 1 (site id) seems to work.)
Weirdly you get to it from 'Preferences' on the user profile page.
Oh! Well done for finding that path through the maze 
Thanks. I'll try to make sense of the script within /admin/roles/usersroles.php and wrap it in a function that outputs what I need (probably an array of each role assigned to the user).
OK, this did it:
require_once('/var/www/html/moodle/config.php' );
global $USER;
$sql = "SELECT ra.id, ra.userid, ra.contextid, ra.roleid, r.name, r.shortname
FROM {role_assignments} ra
JOIN {context} c ON ra.contextid = c.id
JOIN {role} r ON ra.roleid = r.id
WHERE ra.userid = ?
ORDER BY contextlevel DESC, contextid ASC, r.sortorder ASC";
$roleassignments = $DB->get_records_sql($sql, array($USER->id));
$user_roles = array();
foreach($roleassignments as $k => $v){
$user_roles[$v->roleid] = $v->name;
}
Now I just need to find out if they are a site admin and add that to the array.
require_once('/var/www/html/moodle/config.php' );
global $USER;
$sql = "SELECT ra.id, ra.userid, ra.contextid, ra.roleid, r.name, r.shortname
FROM {role_assignments} ra
JOIN {context} c ON ra.contextid = c.id
JOIN {role} r ON ra.roleid = r.id
WHERE ra.userid = ?
ORDER BY contextlevel DESC, contextid ASC, r.sortorder ASC";
$roleassignments = $DB->get_records_sql($sql, array($USER->id));
$user_roles = array();
foreach($roleassignments as $k => $v){
$user_roles[$v->roleid] = $v->name;
}
Now I just need to find out if they are a site admin and add that to the array.
if (is_siteadmin()) {
...
}Best regards
Andreas
Yeah that did it, thanks