[PHP] How to get Usernames

I have a setup where users can access their own pages using a /~username here account I need to put a PHP script in their directoies that will be able to tell me what their username is. I was thinking about $REQUEST_URI however if I go to /~username/dir/page it will return it all. all I

Re: [PHP] How to get Usernames

Hi Michael How about explode()ing it using '/' as the seperator, then finding the element in the resulting array that begins with '~', strip that first character using substr() and bod's your uncle... I'd write the code but I've had a long day... Shane On Friday 02 November 2001 6:11 pm,

Re: [PHP] How to get Usernames

Ok, How do I do that? Hi Michael How about explode()ing it using '/' as the seperator, then finding the element in the resulting array that begins with '~', strip that first character using substr() and bod's your uncle... I'd write the code but I've had a long day... Shane On

Re: [PHP] How to get Usernames

Okz, Hows this... $myarray = explode('/', $REQUEST_URI); for ($i=0; $icount($myarray); $i++) { $mystr = $myarray[$i]; if ($mystr[0] = '~') { $username = substr($mystr, 1); $i = count($myarray); }; }; and presto, username in $username