Re: sessions and REMOTE_USER

Well, try this: $REMOTE_USER or $PHP_AUTH_USER or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_USER"] or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["PHP_AUTH_USER"] or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS{"PHP_AUTH_USER"} or $HTTP_SERVER_VARS{"REMOTE_USER"} ...make your choice... RenzE Rahul Bhide wrote: > > Gurus, > I am a relative newbie to sessions in php. > > Question: How can I get the loginname of the user . Can session and > session variables get this??. Another way I have tried(but > unsuccessfully !!) is to have a .htaccess file in the directory . Once > the user logs in I use the following code to get his login name in a > variable. > > <?php > $f=getenv("REMOTE_USER"); > print "$f"; > ?> > > but on execution nothing gets printed. > > Any solutions ?? > > thanks in advance, > ~Rahul > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net