The information is stored in the $PHP_AUTH_USER variable but only appears to be accessible while you are viewing a page that is protected by that .htaccess file. To make it available to other pages I assigned $PHP_AUTH_USER to a session variable. :o)
-----Original Message----- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:48 AM To: Fifield, Mike Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER And the solution was? remember, other people actually search the archives before they post, so giving the solution to your problem will help those people out. (Even if it was something simple) ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fifield, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'1LT John W. Holmes'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Fifield, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER > Correction Redhat7 :-) Got it working thanks for all the help! > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:36 AM > To: Fifield, Mike; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP_AUTH_USER > > > I have a bunch of pages on my site inside an apache .htaccess protected > > directory. After visitors have logged in I am on part of my site I need to > > find out which user it is that has logged in. I thought this information > was > > stored in the $PHP_AUTH_USER variable, but when I print this variable it > is > > empty. Does anyone know of way to tell on apache 7 how to tell with php > who > > is logged in? > > PHP might not be very stable with apache 7... :) > > What version of PHP are you using? Try using the variable > $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_AUTH_USER']. If it's not > in _SERVER, someone please correct me. > > ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
