How do you programmatically get the current user's status?

Question

I'm trying to get the currently logged-in user's status (active or blocked) in template_preprocess_user. I tried the following with no luck.

function MYTHEME_preprocess_user(&$variables) {
  $user = $variables['user'];
  $variables['status'] = $user->status();
}

function MYTHEME_preprocess_user(&$variables) {
  $user = $variables['user'];
  $variables['status'] = $user->getStatus();
}

Answer 1

Assuming this is Drupal 8, try $user->isBlocked().

If this is Drupal 7, you probably just need to call user_load($uid) first in order to get a fully-loaded user object before checking the $user->status. Or try user_is_blocked($name).