PHP & Windows variables

[Anon]

Hi, I am a newbie to PHP and i have just created some simple registers using PHP4 and MySQL. My question is:- Can PHP get the logged on username from Windows 2000/NT, i can then pass this to MYSQL with a TIMESTAMP to see who created the entry.

Thanks in advance

Hywel

[cvincent]

I do not belive that there are any browsers that support passing the current windows username to the web in the form of a variable. I could be wrong but I have not heard of it.

-Chris

[davidtaylor]

This smells like the need for Java.
Unfortunately my Java's not that hot... but you could try sniffing around the relevant forums.

[elsad]

i dont think so...
its so unsecure to send to the net your username...
it means you can pick up every servers usernames like tables in your SQL... :-)

[Anon]

If not Java, then what? VB?

Presumably you'll need some method of interfacing the Windows API to extract the current username. You then need to pass this to some transport to the server such that you can then get it into your database.

Though, to answer Hywel's question (which we seem to have avoided): No, it can't.