Question

I am wondering if it is possible to get the to pull out just the username.

Here is an example path that I am working with:

/home/UserName/public_html/index.php

The same username is used in the IP link to the folder. Here is an example of what I am using.
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~UserName/index.php

I am wondering if I can somehow use php to get this path from my server and then parse out everything but the usrername. I would then like to take that username and make it a variable that I can use else where on the page.

$username = UserName

Does this make sense?

The root issue I am having is that I am using a lot of php includes and I am having an issue with absolute/relative paths. I am thinking that by getting the username, I can make everything an absolute path instead. Maybe I am going about this all wrong.

Any advise would be awesome. Thank you all for your time.

Answer 1

Got it! Here is the code:

<?php
$full = dirname(__FILE__);
$folder = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
$trim = strtr($full, array('/home/'=>''));
$trim2 = strtr($trim, array('/public_html/'=>''));
$userid = strtr($trim2, array($folder=>''));
?>

In this example if

 dirname(__FILE__) = /home/USERNAME/public_html/blog/

Then $userid would = USERNAME