<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >getmypid</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PHP Options&Information" HREF="ref.info.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="getmyinode" HREF="function.getmyinode.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="getmyuid" HREF="function.getmyuid.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.getmyinode.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.getmyuid.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.getmypid" ></A >getmypid</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN73871" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >getmypid -- Gets PHP's process ID</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN73874" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >getmypid</B > ( void)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the current PHP process ID, or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error. </P ><DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Warning</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P > Process IDs are not unique, thus they are a weak entropy source. We recommend against relying on pids in security-dependent contexts. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.getmygid.html" ><B CLASS="function" >getmygid()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.getmyuid.html" ><B CLASS="function" >getmyuid()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.get-current-user.html" ><B CLASS="function" >get_current_user()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.getmyinode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >getmyinode()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.getlastmod.html" ><B CLASS="function" >getlastmod()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.getmyinode.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.getmyuid.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >getmyinode</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.info.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >getmyuid</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >