Re: FQDN of the server thru CLI
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:57:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: FQDN of the server thru CLI | ||
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Edin
Venkat Venkataraju wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm writing a bunch of cron scripts that send reports periodically using
> phpmailer.
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to find the FQDN of the server. I need
> that information to construct the from address for the emails.
>
> The $_ENV['HOSTNAME'] works only if the script is executed manually. the
> cron does not pass the HOSTNAME env variable to the scripts.
>
> When executed from the CLI, the $_SERVER['HOSTNAME'] does not have the
> fqdn, but just the hostname part of the FQDN.
>
> Unless i hard code the corntab file with
> HOSTNAME=fqdn
>
> i do not want to hardcode the hostname anywhere as these script will be
> copied onto many servers. is there a way i can find the fully qualified
> domain name thru PHP?
>
> Thanks
> /V
>