accessing .htpasswd login from PHP

[Jake Arkinstall]

On my latest client's site, I have a subdomain dedicated to the administration. .htaccess is used to authenticate any user on that subdomain, with the .htpasswd above the root directory. My client has requested that there should be two accounts to login to the admin side - One is for the content author, the other for the staff who can only view orders and modify products.

Is there any way of accessing the username used to login to the site through PHP?

For example, at the login popup box (.htaccess), if I enter the username "bob" (why should I use my imagination?), How could I access the username "bob" through PHP?

Thanks guys,
Jake Arkinstall

[Ernie1]

for groups of users you can use AuthGroupFile

[logic_earth]

$_SERVER

'PHP_AUTH_DIGEST'
When running under Apache as module doing Digest HTTP authentication this variable is set to the 'Authorization' header sent by the client (which you should then use to make the appropriate validation).

'PHP_AUTH_USER'
When running under Apache or IIS (ISAPI on PHP 5) as module doing HTTP authentication this variable is set to the username provided by the user.

'PHP_AUTH_PW'
When running under Apache or IIS (ISAPI on PHP 5) as module doing HTTP authentication this variable is set to the password provided by the user.

'AUTH_TYPE'
When running under Apache as module doing HTTP authenticated this variable is set to the authentication type.

[Jake Arkinstall]

Because I'm running on a Linux server, the above didn't work.

However, by using print_r($_SERVER), I found that REMOTE_USER worked.

Thanks for the direction.

[logic_earth]

The Linux server running Apache isn't it?

Hmm I'm guessing PHP is running as CGI and not a module.