I'm creating a mediawiki theme for my wiki. It is more than just css, I'm changing the layout too, as described in the mediawiki docs.
I would like to make the interface very simple, so I want to only show certain sidebars and other content if a user is logged in or is an "admin" user (or whatever they are called in mediawiki).
Changing the layout is done via php functions that I create in my skins php to output various page elements.
How do you check if a user is logged in? Or what rights/role they have? Is there some kind of function I can check, or constant set by mediawiki?
I have found the answer, incase anyone else needs it, it is:
and with this function you can check if the user is admin: