[pubcookie-users] pubcookie & php

[Nathan Dors]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Maurizio Marini wrote:

> i'm starting a project in php by scratch and i think it would be nice to be
> able to  authenticate users using pubcookie, without missing php session
> management features; is someone there that has reasoned on this issue?
> i'm new with php and any suggestion on this integration will be appreciated

Integration is simple. Just apply pubcookie-based
authentication to your PHP script using the
appropriate AuthType directive. Then consume the
result. It's available in PHP's superglobal arrays as

   $_ENV[REMOTE_USER]

See also
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

-Nathan