Preserved Topic: apache authentication - get username

i just wondered, when i protect something on my webserver using apache's htaccess is it possible to get the logged in user into a PHP variable? (what about the password?)

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

thanks max. this requires php as a apache cgi module.
so i'll have to configure that first... (do i have to uninstall first or can i do that on the fly?)

edit: uhhh i noticed i am missing that file: php4apache.dll
im downloading the new php version now.

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 01-09-2002).]

i got it to work now.

now isnt that a security risk?
so easy can you get one's password... *shakeshead*

I'm pretty sure you don't need PHP as a CGI module. Do your regular .htaccess/.htpasswd configuration to force authentication. Then Apache will pass the logged in username to the environment variable $PHP_AUTH_USER. I guess the preferred way to access that would be (correct me if I'm wrong Max):

getenv('PHP_AUTH_USER');

Also of interest, if you want to force a re-login send these headers:

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Realm for display purposes"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');

-jiblet

Regarding that Apache module vs. CGI module thing, this is the quote from PHP manual:

The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only available when it is running as an Apache module and is hence not available in the CGI version.

Also, you can't use getenv() function in this case. You must use predefined variables $PHP_AUTH_USER, $PHP_AUTH_PW and $PHP_AUTH_TYPE ...