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<h1 class="refname">get_current_user</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">get_current_user</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the name of the owner of the current PHP script</span></p>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>get_current_user</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Returns the name of the owner of the current PHP script.
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Returns the username as a string.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>get_current_user()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Current script owner: ' </span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">get_current_user</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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Current script owner: SYSTEM
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getmyuid.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getmyuid()</a> - Gets PHP script owner's UID</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getmygid.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getmygid()</a> - Get PHP script owner's GID</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getmypid.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getmypid()</a> - Gets PHP's process ID</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getmyinode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getmyinode()</a> - Gets the inode of the current script</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.getlastmod.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">getlastmod()</a> - Gets time of last page modification</span></li>
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