.htaccess Username - extact it in PHP?

[(Shovel)]

I'm sure this must be doable, but I can't think of the right terminology to look up the type of username to PHP documentation.

It's the type you define in a unix .htaccess file and you get a dialog box appear asking you to log in when you try to access a certain folder.

I just want to get the username that the person logs in with so I can use it on the page

Thank you

 

[Jonty]

Hi Ben

I think what you are after two predefined, global variables. These are $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"] to retrieve the username field of a HTTP login request, and, just for the sake of thoroughness, $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_PW"] to retrieve the password field.

Hope this helps

 

[Jonty]

Sorry for replying twice, but edited posts are easy to overlook if you've already read them. With regards your question, this whole area is broadly termed 'Apache HTTP Authentication', with the two variables above being mentioned in this page of the PHP manual. I believe SitePoint also discuss this in their Apache HTTP Authentication article (which uses the slightly older syntax of $PHP_AUTH_AUTH / $PHP_AUTH_PW).

Kind Regards

 

[(Shovel)]

w00t Thank you Jonty

It's for a small project - a website for my friends band. I want to give him PHP news updating but I don't want to take the time to implement a secure user system, so using HTTP Auth seems like the quick and effective way through

EDIT:// thinking about it, it's the same website that you poked the CSS margins for

 

[Jonty]

Your welcome Just let me know if you need any further assistance

Kind Regards

 

[wyrd_fish]

i did somthing simmilar...

http://mooses.34sp.com

http://mooses.34sp.com/blue/admin

PS: does any one what number the error message you get when you click cansel is numbered, as I have some custom 404 pages etc... but it would be nice to have this as one as well...

http://mooses.34sp.com/blue/not_here.htm

 

[(Shovel)]

Yeah, 403 is "Access Denied"

 

[wyrd_fish]

I already have a error 403 bit in my htaccess file...

how odd???

 

[old.Kez]

Er, no.

403 is forbidden directory.
401 is auth failure.

You want:

ErrorDocument 401 /whatever.ext

 

[old.Kez]

HTTP status codes. For all your http request needs.

 

[(Shovel)]

*Bookmarks handy Kez link*

 

[wyrd_fish]

thanks dude.............