wordpress list user roles

I am working ion a wordpress project and digging around into roles etc.

I have the following code which basically gets all available roles:

<?php
global $wp_roles;
$roles = $wp_roles->get_names();

// Below code will print the all list of roles.
print_r($roles);
?>


when i run the above code i get the following output:

array ( [administrator] => Administrator [editor] => Editor [author] => Author [contributor] => Contributor [subscriber] => Subscriber [basic_contributor] => Basic Contributor )

i would like the above to be stripped from the array and into just an unordered list. How would i achieve this?

Thanks Dan

You can use a [foreach][1] loop, to loop through each of the roles in the array.

<ul>
<?php foreach($roles as $role) { ?>
<li><?php echo $role;?></li>
<?php }//end foreach ?>
</ul>


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**Here is the code to make dropdown of wordpress user role**

<?php global $wp_roles; ?>

<select name="role">
<?php foreach ( $wp_roles->roles as $key=>$value ): ?>
<option value="<?php echo $key; ?>"><?php echo $value['name']; ?></option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

Just an additional information. There's also a function [wp_dropdown_roles()][1] which gives you the roles as option html elements.

<select>
<?php wp_dropdown_roles(); ?>
</select>

You can also set the default selected value by passing the role slug as a parameter.

<select>
<?php wp_dropdown_roles( 'editor' ); ?>
</select>


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Since the [l10n functions do not accept variables][1], [`translate_user_role()`][2] is required to translate the role names properly. Also, using [`wp_roles()`][3] rather than the global variable `$wp_roles` is the safer approach, for it first checks if the global is set and if not will set it and return it.

$roles = wp_roles()->get_names();

foreach( $roles as $role ) {
echo translate_user_role( $role );
}


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you would like to display a select list of available WordPress role names.

$roles_obj = new WP_Roles();
$roles_names_array = $roles_obj->get_names();
echo '<select name="role">';
foreach ($roles_names_array as $role_name) {
echo '<option>'.$role_name.'</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

If you are looking for Dropdown options, use WordPress native function `wp_dropdown_roles` This will give Translated user roles

Here is the code example

<select name="default_role" id="default_role">
<?php wp_dropdown_roles( get_option( 'default_role' ) ); ?>
</select>