Posted by Rory Browne on 09/01/05 21:33

Your best hope is to do a reverse lookup on the IP address.

On 9/1/05, Oliver Grätz <oliver.graetz@arcor.de> wrote:
> Gustav Wiberg schrieb:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > Is it possible to get (retrieve) the computername of the client? I just want
> > the name for comparing...
>
> In PHP all you get from the client is in the predefines variables:
> http://de.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php
>
> Perhaps these are of any help:
> http://de.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.server
>
> If you cannnot find what you need in these (hint: print_r($GLOBALS);),
> your last resort might be JavaScript which runs in a sandbox, too, so
> don't bet on it.
>
>
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