username@domain into variable

[Anon]

hi there

i hope someone have an idea for this problem

i am trying to get the username before the @ into a variable. see this:

[e-mail]

tom.example should go into $username

i know about the header() authentication and .htaccess and ...

but that's my problem: i DON'T want to authenticate i just want to use this for displaying specific content. and if i do not authenticate with username/password through some mechanism it seems that my php-variables $PHP_AUTH_USER and $REMOTE_USER are empty (that's logic).

thanx in advance

[Anon]

There is no way for $PHP_AUTH_USER and $REMOTE_USER to be filled without authentication. I don't think there is a way of getting the username with out the user entering it in somewhere, unless there is a javascript routine to pull the email address from a browser, but that is still assuming too much (what browser is being used, the user is using the browser for email access...). Basically, whether you use the browsers authentication, or use your own user profile methods and pass the username variable with sessions, posts or gets, there is no way of knowing the email address of the user.

[Anon]

this may sound mundane, but you could explode the text at the @ symbol

for instance-

$email="[e-mail]";

$xpld=explode("@",$email);

$username=$xpld[1];

hope that helps
stuart

[Anon]

that should say

$username=$xpld[0];

[Anon]

That would work assuming that you can get the username@domain in. The way I read svobi question is that he wants to get that info without the user authenticating.

[Anon]

hi there
thanks for quick answer.
i forgot to mention that i am getting the following url from the browser of the surfer:

http://[e-mail]

and i don't want to authenticate but will have the username in a variable.

you are great

thanks
svobi

[Anon]

Ah... the missing link.

You got me there. I looked at HTTP_POST_VARS, HTTP_GET_VARS, HTTP_SERVER_VARS, GLOBALS, HTTP_ENV_VARS, and argv and haven't found a place where it puts the 'username'.

[Anon]

thanx for the effort

i searched for hours before posting

and will search for solution and post it here if found.

good night from switzerland (24:00)local time

[Anon]

hi there

long forgotten, but now my solution:

there isn't a clean way to do it.
but some hosters (ex: http://strato.de) do this with javascript.

so if anyone is interested in this thing, they could have a look at the @domains of the above mentioned hoster.

no clean solution :-(

so i'm using real subdomains now.

greets js