How can I tell whether a Magento user is an administrator?

Question

I'm using Magento 1.5, and I need to check whether the currently-logged-in user is an admin user. I need to check this from the user end, because I need to do a process for members that depends on whether they're admin users or not.

Is this possible in Magento?

Sometimes it will be impossible because of cookie security. If the admin and store are on different domains, or (more likely) the admin is secured and the frontend is not, the admin session could be inaccessible from the frontend. — clockworkgeek

Sankar Subburaj Sankar Subburaj · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-29T11:42:41

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Mage::getSingleton('admin/session')->getUser();

or

Mage::app()->getStore()->isAdmin();

How can I tell whether a Magento user is an administrator?

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