RE: [PHP] Weird question - environment data from windows

> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin [mailto:martin.skjoldebrand@forumsyd.se] > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:26 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Weird question - environment data from windows > > When you've stopped laughing - is it at all possible to pass Windows > environment data from a Windows workstation to an PHP application > running on a Linux server? You might be able to use Javascript to get some information off of the client browser and maybe populate some form elements or something, but I don't know of any way to automatically send environment information to your linux server. I know Javascript has functions built into it for getting screen height and width and such. Probably other things as well. On the server itself you can use the $_ENV superglobal to get it's environment information (see the listing in phpinfo()), but getting it from the browser is a little trickier. Some things can be obtained in other ways. For example, a hack/workaround for getting a user's login name on a Windows network (with a Windows server) is to put this into your code: $ipaddress = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; $nbtstat = "nbtstat -A ". $ipaddress; exec ($nbtstat,$result); foreach ($result as $row) { if (strpos($row,"<03>")) $username = strtok($row," "); } Basically this uses the IP address of the client, does an "nbtstat" on it and parses all the entries containing "<03>" to get the username. This works ok.. Unless the person is logged into more than one machine at a time, then you usually get the machine name instead. Not great, but if it's your only way of snagging a username, then so be it. Maybe if you tell us what environment information you're trying to pass to the server, someone has a workaround like this specifically for that variable. If it's for just some userset variable, then I'm really not sure how you'd do that. If you do find a way, please share! Could be useful to lots of people. Good luck! -TG