Redirecting a drupal user based on their role

Question

I have a page on my website that I want to redirect users to different pages based on their role.

I tried to make a module to put mymodule_init() to redirect users.

I check with arg(0) my page but cannot figure out how to redirect user based on role.

How do I?

Answer 1

You can access the $user variable since its a global variable by putting

global $user;

At the beginning of your logic. Then you can check the user role with something like:

if (in_array('myrole', $user->roles)) {
  drupal_goto('page');
}