Use PHP to detect which htaccess user signed in?

Question

I\'m constructing an upload so people I know can send me files securely, and with ease. But I want to design it just so, that when one of my friends sign in with their

Answer 1

You'd want $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] to retrieve the username and password, assuming you mean a regular "basic authentication" login, as done by Require valid-user settings in .htaccess.

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Answer 2

Not to open up an old task, but running PHP 5 with Apache 2.2 and this is the variable that works for me:

$_SERVER['USER'];

Answer 3

Something that worked for me:

$_SERVER['REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER']

Please try the above. In general, one can do "print_r($_SERVER)" and hunt out the parameter one is looking for.

Answer 4

I think the following variables give you the derise information:

PHP_AUTH_USER: When doing HTTP authentication this variable is set to the username provided by the user.

PHP_AUTH_PW: When doing HTTP authentication this variable is set to the password provided by the user.

 echo "<p>Hello {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']}.</p>";
 echo "<p>You entered {$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']} as your password.</p>";

Answer 5

You can read it from $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']

Answer 6

You should be able to get the user name the user signed in with from the $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] variable after they've successfully signed in.