Re: [PHP] getting authentication information from apache

Tried that ($PHP_AUTH_USER) and it is also empty.

On 2/24/07, dave <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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try echo $PHP_AUTH_USER;

Ryan wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I looked at phpinfo() as you said, same thing...
>
> _SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] no value
>
> You may be right, this may not be available, but I don't want to keep
> throwing a login screen in front of users for no apparent reason.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
> On 2/23/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, February 21, 2007 1:01 pm, Ryan wrote:
>> > I'm new to php and I have am running php on apache. I already have
>> > ldap
>> > authentication set up in apache would rather not create a separate
>> > system
>> > for php. What would be ideal would be to get the current authenticated
>> > user
>> > from the apache environment. At this point I'm grabbing at straws, but
>> > so
>> > far I've tried....
>> >
>> > $ret = apache_getenv("LDAP_USER");
>> > echo $ret;
>> > echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];
>> > echo $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'];
>> > $ret = apache_getenv('PHP_AUTH_DIGEST');
>> >
>> > None of these work. Has anyone done this??
>>
>> If the answer you are seeking isn't available in:
>> <?php phpinfo();?>
>> run on the page where you are trying to do this, then you probably
>> can't get the answer you want.
>>
>> Running http://php.net/ldap to re-connect and re-authenticate will
>> probably be fairly cheap, since LDAP is supposed to be pretty dang
>> fast in the first place, and whatever caching is going on for the LDAP
>> or OS calls behind LDAP virtually guarantees that the data you want is
>> in RAM.
>>
>> --
>> Some people have a "gift" link here.
>> Know what I want?
>> I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist.
>> http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
>> Yeah, I get a buck. So?
>>
>>
>
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