04-26-2013
Q: grab email username from script
Hi all,
I want to set up a script to email a person to confirm another program is running but i wish to avoid having to customise the script for each individiual.
I am ok with what i need to do except i need to get the first and last name of the user to construct an email address to send to. The username variable and associated grep routines are not possible to use as they do not return anything. All i can get is the userid whch they log in with.
I feel the best way would be to grab the last and first names as set up in their email. Is there a way of using a script to return this info? I cannot assume they have sent or received emails either so i would need the info pulled from their settings
Thank you in advance for any assistance rendered.
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_ENV(3) 1 _ENV(3)
$_ENV - Environment variables
An associative array of variables passed to the current script via the environment method.
These variables are imported into PHP's global namespace from the environment under which the PHP parser is running. Many are provided by
the shell under which PHP is running and different systems are likely running different kinds of shells, a definitive list is impossible.
Please see your shell's documentation for a list of defined environment variables.
Other environment variables include the CGI variables, placed there regardless of whether PHP is running as a server module or CGI proces-
sor.
$HTTP_ENV_VARS contains the same initial information, but is not a superglobal. (Note that $HTTP_ENV_VARS and $_ENV are different variables
and that PHP handles them as such)
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4.1.0 | |
| | |
| | Introduced $_ENV that deprecated $HTTP_ENV_VARS. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
Example #1
$_ENV example
<?php
echo 'My username is ' .$_ENV["USER"] . '!';
?>
Assuming "bjori" executes this script
The above example will output something similar to:
My username is bjori!
Note
This is a 'superglobal', or automatic global, variable. This simply means that it is available in all scopes throughout a script.
There is no need to do global $variable; to access it within functions or methods.
getenv(3), The filter extension.
PHP Documentation Group _ENV(3)