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isMemberOf()

isMemberOf() is nearly identical in functionality to hasRole(), in that it accepts one argument, and returns a boolean indicating whether the user has membership in that argument. However, rather than checking if the user has a specified role, isMemberOf() checks if the user is a member of a specific group.

This is great for situations where you want to make sure that only certain group members can perform certain actions, but (for some reason) you don't have a role associated specifically with that. For an example of this, see the following code snippet.

Note that unless the role is configured as an elevated privilege, the hasRole() method will always return true if you check whether an admin has a given role. However, this ...