Tuesday, July 26, 2005, Michael Roush wrote:
>> Is it possible to get the Windows username (not host machine) with PHP
>> or, failing that, any other way? Thanks,
> For a user's machine, not that I know of. That sort of information isn't
> generally collected/transmitted by a web browser, afaik.
> If you are meaning the Windows username for a Windows machine running a
> web server and PHP, that is stored in the $_ENV["USERNAME"] variable.
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I haven't tried this but suspect you'd get some mileage trying
$_SERVER['AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER']
in PHP 4.1.0 or later or
$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['AUTH_USER'] and $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_USER']
prior to PHP 4.1.0
HTH,
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