Pass Arg to PHP Web Page at Startup

[jsteff]

I need to validate a user id before an app starts on the server.
The userid is sitting on Drive C of a desktop running Windows.
I have a PHP program on the server that will validate a user BUT currently, the user id is hardcoded.

When I start the program on the server, I need to submit the user ID as a variable, for example:

http://www.XXXXX.com/MAIN/ValidatePHP.php&myvar=Bubba

Then in the script, the variable would be set equal to Bubba.

How can I do this????

Thanks!

 

[vacunita]

Not with PHP.
But how is the Id on the machine? is it a text file? maybe you are trying to read the users login directly.

Perhaps you can setup a link shortcut in the user's machine the way you need it and include the elusive ID so the user only needs to lick the shortcut to get to the page.

or

You can have a "lobby" page that might run a JS or Activex script to acquire the value, form the URL and redirect to the PHP app with the Id in the URL.

Neither of these is directly related to the PHP side of things.

You could ask in the forum216 or even forum329



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