What about: ENV["USER"] or ENV["USERNAME"]
(see phpinfo())... Greets, Edward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Towell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stewart Gateley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] is_uploaded_file() emulation? > Yeah, that's what I looked at before posting - but there's a catch: > "Returns the user ID of the **current script**, or *FALSE* on error". :-( > > Bogdan > > Martin Towell wrote: > > > try: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getmyuid.php > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bogdan Stancescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:33 AM > > To: Stewart Gateley > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PHP] is_uploaded_file() emulation? > > > > > > Thank you - but that wasn't the question - as you can see, I started the > > second paragraph with a reference to that function - my problem is what > > I compare the result to - i.e. how do I find out *my* UID, not the > > file's. > > > > Mr. Kelly's solution should work, but it's rather absurd (from a PHP > > point of view) to have to create a file just to find out what my uid > > is... I'm sure there should be a more reasonable method - but I don't > > know it. Hoping somebody does... ;-) > > > > Thanks! > > > > Bogdan > > > > Stewart Gateley wrote: > > > > >$owner = fileowner ($file); > > > > > >returns a string containing the owner or false. see > > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php > > > > > >-- Stewart > > > > > >--- Bogdan Stancescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all! > > >> > > >>How do I find out if a file was actually uploaded /without/ using > > >>is_uploaded_file()? > > >> > > >>My first though is that I should use fileowner() on the file and see > > >>if > > >>it's the same as the user who runs PHP (Apache) - but how do I find > > >>that > > >>out? I don't want to use exec("id -u") either because the syntax may > > >>be > > >>different for distinct systems and I'd like to avoid system calls if > > >>possible. > > >> > > >>I'm open to any suggestions to solve the original problem - not > > >>necessarily using UID's. > > >> > > >>Thanks! > > >> > > >>Bogdan > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>-- > > >>PHP General Mailing List ( http://www.php.net/) > > >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >> > > > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > >Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List ( http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
