Re: How to get user full name using PHP function?
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:31:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to get user full name using PHP function? | ||
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, gaukia 345 wrote:
> I'm writing a web mail. Having problem grabbing user full name to be
> included in the email. So I hv a few questions:
>
> 1) How do I fetch the user's full name using a PHP function WITHOUT
> calling system program finger? I already have the Linux user ID and
> password since I am using HTTP authentication.
Check out the function posix_getpwnam(), in particular, the gecos field.
This obviously only works if the user account is present on your web
server.
> 2) How do I fetch it using finger?
I wouldn't if I were you.
> 3) Do I put the full name in the from->personal variable?
Difficult to say. What is the from->personal variable?
miguel