How to get the proper GID Topic is solved

[superboer12]

I recently started developing for Joomla (1.0.13).
Currently I am working on a custom component.

In the front-end I would like to restrict some options to editors or above.
My idea to accomplish this is to use the GID of the user (should be between 20 and 25).

I tried

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global $my;
echo $my->gid;

The admin user has GID 25, but when I am logged in with 'admin' the above prints '2'.

What am I doing wrong?