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You have a stand-alone application that is not a Drupal module but resides in a Drupal sub-folder . And you want Drupal to manage your users. You want to access the currently logged-in Drupal user from your application. The following function will give you the current  user id, name, email and roles: use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel; use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; /** * Get Drupal current session user details. * Passing Drupal folder, or its relative folder such as '..' * when it is called from a Drupal sub-folder. * Return ['id', 'name', 'email', 'roles'] */ function get_drupal_current_user($drupal_dir) { // Change the directory to the Drupal root. chdir($drupal_dir); $drupal_root = getcwd(); if ($drupal_root === false) return []; $autoloader = require_once 'autoload.php'; $kernel = new DrupalKernel('prod', $autoloader); $request = Request::createFromGlobals(); // Emulate Drupal /index.php to get ...

On every  Gnome Shell desktop there is a main panel at the top of the screen. Usually, the panel shows the current time, the WiFi signal, the speaker volume, the power button, and the activity startup button. There can be many other things on the panel as individual user penchants. The panel will not be covered by anything, and will be there at all time except when there is a full-screen application running. The Gnome community has decided that the whole humanity needs the panel. What little things of texts and icons on the panel are called Gnome Shell extensions. Each of them is a kind of a desktop application which always run through out a user session. They can be personalized. We are going to create a simple and useless application that shows a running counter, something like the one that shows '1473' on the panel image above. It can be a starting point for a bigger and productive application. But before we begin let's get familiar with a collection of handy Gnome too...