IE Driven Authorization...Login-name?

[Anon]

Hello Everyone,

When we have a IE or IIS driven authorization prompt for the user, and they sucessfully login. Does their login name get stored anywhere ... so I can access it?

If you have no idea what IE thing I'm talking about, I set one up really quickly at http://www-test.biaoc.com/admin

Once someone logs in... how do I access what username they logged in with?

I'm hoping PHP can access that information somehow.

Thanks.

-- Navid

[Anon]

Actually, I got it.

For those of you interested:

<?php
if (!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {
header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"My Realm\"");
header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
echo "Text to send if user hits Cancel button\n";
exit;
} else {
echo "<p>Hello $PHP_AUTH_USER.</p>";
echo "<p>You entered $PHP_AUTH_PW as your password.</p>";
}
?>

Voila!

-- Navid

[the_reverend]

You can also register those as session variables to access them later:

<?
session_start();
session_register("username");
$username = $PHP_AUTH_USER;
?>

From then on, as long as a page has session_start() at the beginning, you can access those session variables. But make sure you have a logout like this to clear the session variables:

<?
//unregister session variables
while (list ($key, $val) = each $HTTP_SESSION_VARS )) {
session_unregister($key);
}
?>