Website info tracking

reamonn

We have a site that we are tracking every page hit. Alot of the things we are tracking are SQL Reports and we want to find out who all is using it etc....

Besides just using the REMOTE_ADDR(IP address) is there a way to get the NT-Username for the end-user's machine?

Is there a page with a listing of all the information you can get about an end-user etc..

I know there used to be some good examplesin the archives on phpbuilder. But now I cannot find any of them and all my bookmarks are dead links..

Thanks

theslinky

write a simple phpinfo program:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

that'll give you all the info that you can possibly collect for a user.

i don't think you can find the nt username.

you can write an active X applet for that, but it'll only load on the client's browser if 1) it is digitally signed 2) the client clicks OK to run the applet

and just out of curiosity: why do you want their NT name?

-sridhar

reamonn

The website is an Intranet and is only being used by the employees of our company.

Instead of trying to decipher who has what IP address (DHCP) I think it would be much easier if we could somehow see their username.

We do not have a DB in place yet to build an authentication system, so I was hoping this would work for the meantime.

theslinky

then in that case, it might be easier to do the active X applet.

basically it will look up a value in the registry table. In the case, you might want to look up some value from HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

now the problem is singing this applet so that the client can be asked to run it.

if you're using DHCP, doesn't the dchp server store usernames? can you access that using a COM object (and load the COM from PHP)?

-sridhar

jmcneese

of course you can get the NT username, assuming that your webserver has integrated windows authentication turned on.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_USER']