Accessing environment variables from php

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1. You can use the function getenv() which will work from the CLI as well as via http
2. If you're using php via http, then you can use the global array HTTP_ENV_VARS where all environment variables are exported. You need to declare this as a global identifier (see second part of code example).

	<?php function show_home_directory() { # works from CLI and in web browser: echo getenv("HOME"). "<br>\n"; # only via http global $HTTP_ENV_VARS; echo $HTTP_ENV_VARS["HOME"] . "<br>\n"; } show_home_directory(); ?>

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2006-08-02, 14:59:58

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