Re: user info?

Hi Ramiro, @ 6:48:38 AM on 4/14/2001, Ramiro Radjiman wrote: ... > I'm just wondering if there is a method to extract user specific > info when this user connects to the site. http://www.php.net/manual/nl/function.getenv.php May be what you're looking for. > U user must have a handle, but i don't want him to login. So i > thaught if i can get specific userinfo from the client, this info > would be his handle to walk trough the site. > If he logs in it aint a problem :-) I'd use sessions: http://www.php.net/manual/nl/ref.session.php Because you can't depend on something like IP addresses or hostnames to build Unique IDs because of things like proxies. And I wouldn't depend solely on cookies either. -Brian -- PGP is spoken here: 0xE4D0C7C8 Please, DO NOT carbon copy me on list replies.