variable for the username

[h3lium]

hello,
first of all sorry for my english ;-) i'm a german, but i try to do my best...

im currently working on a guestbook for my gallery.
everything is working, exept of one thing, the user have to enter their names manually.
thats what i want to change.
but i dont know how to get the username.
does somebody know how to handle that?
i just need to set the current variable ($name - which the user have to fill in by a form) to the variable of the gallery...

it would be very cool if somebody could help me, cuz spend many hours for this allready

greeting
christian

[Joachim Müller]

this has been asked only recently - search the forum (for "guestbook").

Joachim

[h3lium]

sorry, i allready searched, and tried it again now, but i didnt found anything that could match...
thats also why i registered , usually i try to find anything befor i register...

in SMF (simply machines forum) its just a simple thing. like "$context['user']['name']"
and thats it...
is there nothing like this in coopermine?

[Nibbler]

If you can include init.inc.php then you have USER_NAME available. If you can't include it then you can use the authentication mod to give you the same.

[h3lium]

i included it...
- require('include/init.inc.php');

and i'm using "$user['user_name']" but that doesn't work ...
i dont know why

[Nibbler]

Because there is no such variable! - that's why I said to use USER_NAME

[h3lium]

that doesnt work too
i donna why...


here is a small part of the code:

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...
    <tr>
     <td><b>';
echo 'Name:';
     echo'</b></td>
     <td>';
echo $USER_NAME;
echo'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
...


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require('include/init.inc.php');

[Nibbler]

I don't understand why you refuse to use USER_NAME

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<?
define('IN_COPPERMINE', 1);
include 'include/init.inc.php';
echo USER_NAME;
?>

[h3lium]

uff...
now its working... thanks alot!!!
you really helped me!
problem is solved

greetings
chris

[Joachim Müller]

you just found out what a php constant is - see http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.php

Joachim