Extracting .htaccess user name in PHP

[SneakyDave]

Is there a system variable that holds the .htaccess userid of a person accessing a protected directory?

Just checking! Thanks

Sneaky

[Jacob Stetser]

yup, there is!


Code Sample:

$PHP_AUTH_USER

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[SneakyDave]

Thanks Jacob, but it doesn't seem to work for me, I have a directory protected with .htaccess, and a form in that directory where I want to default the userid into. For example:

Code Sample:

<input type=text name=name size=30 value='<?php print $PHP_AUTH_USER; ?>'>

But the $PHP_AUTH_USER returns null. I looked up the documentation on it at www.php.net, and it seems that I'm using it right. Actually trying to print the authuser returns a null also.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Sneaky

[edit]Fixed spelling and clarified a few things[/edit]
[This message has been edited by SneakyDave (edited 05-08-99)]

[SneakyDave]

R'ing TFM more and I found out that if I use $REMOTE_USER, it works fine. I assume if you used the "other" php authentication, then $PHP_AUTH_USER would work?

Sneaky

[Justin]

That's funny - I was  going to suggest $REMOTE_USER when I first saw your quesion, but upon verification I couldn't get it to work... I'll try again later though. I can use that myself for my banner script, since  I now need a way for the sponsors to see their own stats   I might not use .htaccess though...

Oh, well, one more thing to know though   I know the environment variable REMOTE_USER is supposed to show that though, maybe I fubared something when I tried it (was real quick).

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Justin Nelson
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