Drupal 7 logout functionality
Hello Forum.
I am using Drupal 7 on a new web site. It uses a theme from devsaran. I am not going to mention where the web site is because I have told the friend whom I am making the site for that we will keep the location private until it is completed.
I have created a test user and I logged on to the site. Now, here is the weird part. I did not grant the user any special privileges, but, still, the user does not seem to be able to do anything once he logs in. Granted, there are not any pages posted yet so, I suppose, he might be able to make comments. Is that all a new user can do?
Here is the problem I have. There is no functionality for him to log out. How would a new user log out?
Megan posted this at 17:39 — 30th January 2017.
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Why are you creating a new site on Drupal 7 right now? Drupal 8 is viable for most common situations right now, and you'll save yourself a lot of upgrade headaches later on by starting with 8.
Users don't have any privileges unless you grant them. What you probably want to do is create a new role, assign it it some permissions, and then give that user account the new role. You can also assign some privileges to the default "Authenticated User" role.
This User Guide page on "Managing User Accounts" should help:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/user-chapter.html
There should be a menu link to log out. If there isn't, it might be because you haven't placed the User Account menu into the theme anywhere. Try going to the Admin > Structure > blocks menu and adding the User Account menu to a region.
Megan
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DominickLo posted this at 17:17 — 8th March 2017.
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Thank you for writing in details about this function. i have recently started development in drupal project so, i was not aware about drupal project.
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isarbjitgrewal posted this at 03:35 — 26th May 2017.
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Here is the improved solution for Drupal 7 logout functionality.
function user_logout($message = '', $status = 'warning') {
global $user;
watchdog('user', 'Session closed for %name.', array('%name' => $user->name));
module_invoke_all('user_logout', $user);
// Destroy the current session, and reset $user to the anonymous user.
session_destroy();
// Sends a message to the user if you have a need to warn you
if(!empty($message)){
drupal_set_message($message, $status);
}
drupal_goto();
}
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charleshollins posted this at 03:59 — 21st April 2021.
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Megan, once I also had this problem. Thanks for sharing such useful information.
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