Help with .htaccess authentication

Is their anyway that a variable can be passed to a script from the login screen of .htaccess authentication.

What i would like to do is use .htaccess authentication and then have the username of the person who logged in as a variable in the script.

I dont want to use headers because their is potentially thousands of pages in the protected dir. but i do need someway of doing this.

I am currently using a mysql database for storing the usernames:passwords and other userdata.

Terry,

You can use $REMOTE_USER to identify the username authorized by .htaccess

Regards,
Sam

I don't understand what your're saying about headers and thousands of pages.

But if you enable HTTP Basic authentication, the environment will include $REMOTE_USER set to the username that is logged in.

Thanks guys your both legends.

Works a breeze just what i needed for my project.

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