$author = "Stewart" ; > > On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 02:40 PM, Simon Bryan wrote: > > >Hi al, > >I have the following code - downloaded from ZEND - that checks a users > >name > >and password against our NT server, the username is then stored in > >$USER. > >How can i then make the contents of that value available to other php > >pages? > > off the top of my head i'd look at storing the uname in a cookie, or > session variable if you're using them. I _think_ that's about the only > way you can make vars persist across pages...
the only way to avoid spoofing of the username is to use sessions. this stores the variable on the server and sets a cookie to associate the user with the session. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php marty -- "Every problem in the world can be fixed with either flowers, or duct tape, or both." [1] - illuzion (David Millington) [1] - http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/3/15/175156/106/43#43 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
