Using current_user() in Simple Pages

It seems that Simple Pages does not support current_user(). I am using Omeka 2.2.2, the Guest User plugin and this code

<?php
$newuser=current_user();
if (!$newuser) {
?>
   <h2>You must be a <a href="guest-user/user/register">registered</a> user and <a href="guest-user/user/login">logged in</a> to use this site.</h2>
<h5>If you have not registered or logged in yet, please use the links in the upper right hand corner to register or login. Thanks.</h5>
<?php }; ?>

and it makes no difference if a user is logged in or not, the page displays the same.

I have embedded similar code in .php files and have not had any problems. I can only assume that I am missing something. Any ideas?

The most recent version of Simple Pages no longer supports directly inserting PHP.

You'll need to either modify the index.php file for your theme, or write a plugin with a shortcode to insert into the page.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I created a simple plugin for the shortcode [checkuser] that looks like this:

class CheckUserPlugin extends Omeka_Plugin_AbstractPlugin
{
    protected $_hooks = array('initialize');

    public function hookInitialize()
    {
        add_shortcode('checkuser', array($this, 'checkusercode'));
    }

    public function checkusercode($args, $view)
    {
		$newuser=current_user();
		if ($newuser) {
		$html = "<meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=omeka-2.2.2/>";
		} else {
		$html='<h2>You must be a <a href="omeka-2.2.2/guest-user/user/register">registered</a> user and <a href="omeka-2.2.2/guest-user/user/login">logged in</a> to use this site.</h2><h5>If you have not registered or logged in yet, please use the links in the upper right hand corner. Thanks.</h5>';
    	}
		return $html;
    }
}

Then I just had to embed [checkuser] in the Simple Page and then if the user is not logged in, then they see the Simple Page telling them to log in; if logged in, then they are redirected to the default home page. Thanks again.

Well done, and thanks! This makes a great example of how to convert some of the things many people were doing via PHP in SimplePages into a basic plugin. I expect it will help many others, so thanks for posting your solution.