Note that this function really does what the description says, it returns the numeric user id of the user who *owns the file* containing the current script not the effective user id of user *running* the current script. Most applications will want the latter which is provided by posix_getuid().
getmyuid
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
getmyuid — Gets PHP script owner's UID
Parameters
This function has no parameters.
Return Values
Returns the user ID of the current script, or false on error.
See Also
- getmygid() - Get PHP script owner's GID
- getmypid() - Gets PHP's process ID
- get_current_user() - Gets the name of the owner of the current PHP script
- getmyinode() - Gets the inode of the current script
- getlastmod() - Gets time of last page modification
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bozo_z_clown at yahoo dot com ¶
17 years ago
divinity76+spam at gmail dot com ¶
2 years ago
warning, at least 7.4-8.1 returns the owner of the initial entrypoint file rather the currently executing file,
meaning, if you have a.php owned by 1 containing
<?php var_dump(getmyuid());require_once("b.php"); ?>
and b.php owned by 2 containing
<?php var_dump(getmyuid());require_once("a.php"); ?>
running "php a.php" will get you int(1) int(1), and running "php b.php" will get you int(2) int(2), you won't get "int(1) int(2)"
