[ciapug] htaccess

Lathrop Preston ciapug@cialug.org
Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:28:08 -0600


You can use

$_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];

instead.

there seems to be some confusion as to the functional difference between 
the two (if any)



Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:54, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> 
>>Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've got a folder that is password protected by an .htaccess file. From
>>>my php script I need to find out what the username they typed in was.
>>>
>>>Is the username from the apache login stored an as envirnoment variable
>>>somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>>:) Dave
>>
>>$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']
>>
>>-barry
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