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
