question regarding user login checking

Right now I'm having a difficult time seeing how to simply see if a user is logged in or not, and if so, what level they are. Some psuedo code:

Code:

if ( is_logged_in() ) {
    echo their access level, or whatever
} else {
    echo information for non users
}

The above task seems difficult because it appears access_page() is required to get the login information but it also requires them to be logged in. So, it instantly redirects to the login when I do not want this. Please provide code that does the above but with no redirects.

Is disabling login redirects the way to solve this, and if so, what's the official way to do that?

waht about:

Code:

<?php
if (!empty($_SESSION['user'])) {
  echo $_SESSION['user'];
} else {
  echo "public content";
}

Ah yes, thanks. It appears I was overcomplicating matters

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