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Gets the name of the owner of the current PHP script
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
Examples ( Source code ) » get_current_user Code Examples / Notes » get_current_userjustin samuel
with 4.3.11 (and i assume all other versions): get_current_user() does *not* get the name of the user the script is running as, as stated in the comment below. instead, it "gets the name of the owner of the current PHP script" (as stated in the description above) --- that is, the owner of the file, not the owner of the process. if the script file is owned by root but php scripts are being being run as apache (for example, you're using mod_php because you don't mind your shared hosting environment being insecure), when you request your script through the webserver, get_current_user() will return "root". that does not mean your script is running as root. comicforum
Under windows, this function does not work the same in Apache as it does in IIS. If you want the user name in apache, you have to use... getenv("REMOTE_USER"); justin samuel
to get the username of the process owner (rather than the file owner), you can use: <?php $processUser = posix_getpwuid(posix_geteuid()); print $processUser['name']; ?> s dot bond1
The information returned by get_current_user() seems to depend on the platform. Using PHP 5.1.1 running as CGI with IIS 5.0 on Windows NT, get_current_user() returns the owner of the process running the script, *not* the owner of the script itself. It's easy to test - create a file containing: <? echo get_current_user(); ?> Then access it through the browser. I get: IUSR_MACHINE, the Internet Guest Account on Windows, which is certainly not the owner of the script. siliconexpress
The 'constant' __FILE__ works easier ... Example : echo __FILE__; Returns - '/home/username/public_html/filename.php' This works INSIDE includes!!! It saved me a bunch of problems.. If I want to make sure somebody does not load a file directly this is supposed be be an include this is the code I use... Hope it helps you as much as it does me! :) //If user tries to load page directly the redirect to the home page if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] == __FILE__) { header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: /"); echo "DO NOT TRY TO ACCESS THIS FILE DIRECTLY\r\n"; exit;} chris
If you want to get the absolute name of the file you are currently on, use this: <? $rest = explode("php.net/", $PHP_SELF); $rest = $rest[0]; echo("/home/".get_current_user()."/public_html".$rest); ?> Just change php.net/ to your site's domain and a slash. joho
get_current_user () returns the owner of the process running the script. In most cases, this will be the web server user ("nobody", "httpd", "apache", etc).
tmacedo
<?php /** * addendum to 'SiliconExpress at Techie dot com' post: * at Win32 enviroment, you have: **/ var_dump(strcmp($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'], __FILE__)); // output: int(0) /** * but you can use, instead: **/ var_dump(strcmp(realpath($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']), __FILE__)); // output: int(-1) ?> |
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