How to check if user is Sysop using Php in Mediawiki?

Question

I am trying to add a div to my sidebar and I only want this block to show to administrators. How can I check if a user is an administrator in php? I am trying to add this to mys

Answer 1

I think I got it. I added the following to my skin template to add special conditions for sysops and non sysops:

     isAllowed('protect')) {
         // if sysop
            echo 'Hello People';
        }

        else {
            echo 'Yo';
        }
      ?>            

I got the idea from here: Check if user is sysop

If there is a better way to do this, please do let me know. But so far, the above seems to work when I added that code to the basetemplate of my skin.