get username after login to server

[RIRedinPA]

This is kind of out of my realm so excuse any comments/questions that don't make sense. I am working on a internal site that will sit on a server which requires the user to use their Active Directory username and password to access. Once they authenticate the server will then load my page. Is there a way for me to get the username that they used to log in - I'll be using it to pull up their data stored in a MySQL db and configure the page for them. Thanks.

[Pikachu2000]

I assume you're using some sort of form to log them in, right? Is there a reason you couldn't just populate a $_SESSION var with the contents of the username field when they submit the form, or does it use a different method to authenticate?

[RIRedinPA]

No, that's the problem, the login window is being generated by the browser I assume by a request from the server? I thought of putting a page up with a form and storing the username through a session but then it reverses my question, how do I pass the username/password back to apache to authenticate - the site is going to be behind a https wall. I hope that makes sense, like I said, not my area of competence. You can't get on the server until you authenticate. So either way, I need to talk to apache.

[RIRedinPA]

I solved it:

 

<?PHP

$User = $_SERVER[ "REMOTE_USER" ];

print "Your username is : $User";

?>