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
