[imp] Display of username on login screen

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:18:49 +0200


More reliable seems to me to display the fullname the user specified in his 
standard identity.

Jan.

Zitat von Alexander Skwar <ASkwar@DigitalProjects.com>:

> Hi
> 
> On the login screen (horde/login.php), only the username of the logged
> in user is displayed.  I'd like it better, if also the real name would
> be displayed, if one is set in the /etc/passwd GECOS entry.
> 
> Attached is a diff which does just this.  It displays the user's real
> name, if the function posix_getpwnam is available.  If so, the function
> returns the real name.  It further also returns other "useful"
> information like phone number, etc.pp..  Per standard, these fields
> should be seperated by commas (,).  The diff actually only returns the
> very first comma set, so, if someone has his username specified like
> "Doe, John", it would only print "Doe".
> 
> If no realname is set, or if the function does not exist, the username
> is displayed, like it was before.
> 
> 
> --- user.inc.alt        Tue Oct  9 23:58:18 2001
> +++ user.inc    Wed Oct 10 00:14:43 2001
> @@ -1,7 +1,25 @@
> +<?php
> +function getRealname($username){
> +  // Try to get the GECOS name entry for the user
> +  if (function_exists('posix_getpwnam')){
> +    $pwnam = posix_getpwnam($username);
> +    // We're only interested in the very first part
> +    // hoping, that this really contains the user's
> +    // real name
> +    $realname = explode(',', $pwnam['gecos']);
> +    if (! empty($realname[0])){
> +      return ucwords($realname[0]) . ' &lt;' . $username . '&gt;';
> +    }
> +  }
> +  // Function does not exist or no realname set,
> +  // return the username
> +  return ucfirst($username);
> +}
> +?>
>  <table class="menu" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"
> cellspacing="0">
>  <tr valign="middle">
>    <td class="header" align="left" nowrap="nowrap">
> -    &nbsp;<b><?= sprintf(_("Welcome, %s"), ucfirst(Auth::getAuth()))
> ?></b>
> +    &nbsp;<b><?= sprintf(_("Welcome, %s"),
> getRealname(Auth::getAuth())) ?></b>
>    </td>
>    <td width="100%">&nbsp;</td>
>    <td class="header" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alexander Skwar
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