Displaying the username of a logged-in user

Nuke Cadet Joined: Apr 19, 2003 Posts: 1

I'm trying to make some kind of chat/shoutbox module/block and despite I am new to PHP, everything has worked out as planned so far. My problem now is that I need to get a logged-in users username into a variable so I can display it in front of a users comment. Printing the username in a modules-file is easy, but I need to print it in a file displayed in an Iframe, so all the functions and variables from the modules-file (where the header, footer and so on is included) wont be valid. So, to simplify; How do I get the username into a variable without including header, footer and mainfile? Hope someone here is more into the nuke-system than I am.. Confused

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Make a block or module that calls the IFRAME. Get the user's name and then pass it as a form literal in the url. Example:

Code:

<?php

/************************************************************************/
/* PHP-NUKE: Web Portal System */
/* =========================== */
/* */
/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi */
/* http://phpnuke.org */
/* */
/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */
/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */
/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License. */
/************************************************************************/

if (eregi("block-iframe.php",$PHP_SELF)) {
Header("Location: index.php");
die();
}
// code to get the users name goes here
// assume username = John Doe and is stored in a variable called username

$content = "<iframe frameborder=\"0\" src=\"modules/iframe/index.php?username=$username\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\"><ilayer src=\"modules/iframe/index.php?username=$username\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\"></ilayer></iframe>";
?>