如何从LDAP获取用户名？

Question

I'd like to ask you how can i dinamically get a username from ldap. As you can see below, i entered the username 'smith2'

$_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"] = 'smith2';
$param = $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]

And I can get his first name, like this:

   $ldap1 = new ldapl;
   $fname=$ldap1->getFname($param);

This is useful because I have some forms with some fields which are filled by default (name, first name, etc).

It must be dynamic. Each person has a PC, so the person Y should see his name, first name, etc The person X his name, first name, etc.

But i don't know how to get the username dinamically. Can you explain it to me?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can request the username via an AJAX call:

var remote_user = '';
$.get('path/to/server-side.php', function (response) {
    remote_user = response;
    /*you can populate your forms with information returned from your PHP script*/
});

This code will request information from a PHP script. Your PHP script could just output $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] and that will be the response variable in the AJAX callback.

A good way to communicate between PHP script and JavaScript is to use the PHP function json_encode() to output your server response. Then use the jQuery method $.getJSON() which will automatically parse the response into a JavaScript object that can be iterated through.

Documentation for $.get() : http://api.jquery.com/jquery.get

Documentation for json_encode() : http://www.php.net/json_encode