PHP - Get Computer Name

[DarrenPWS]

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can get the name of a computer using PHP.

Thanks,

Darren

[speed]

If you're after the name of the host the PHP script is running on you can use $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];

If you're after the name of a computer that's connected to the script you can get it's IP from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] and gethostbyaddr.

echo gethostbyaddr('127.0.0.1');

Will return the name of the local host.

If none of those are what you are after then let me know and I'll try again.

[DarrenPWS]

Hi speed,

thanks for that - I'm probably not making it clear what I need as a lot of people on other forums have offered the same solution.

I'm looking to get the actual name that the user gives the computer, which might be a windows only thing? For example, I have a laptop I call D-LAPTOP.

Hope that makes a bit more sense - it's a bit of a long shot anyway as I guess it isn't the sort of information you should be able to just access.

THanks for your help

[speed]

Ok, I don't use PHP on Windows nor do I have it installed to test this but have you tried reading the environment variable COMPUTERNAME?

getenv('HOSTNAME') should return the host name on Linux.