fp fpweb and environment vars

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Sat Nov 4 19:50:36 PST 2006


Quoting Scott Nelson (Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:44:26 -0800):

> It appears that when using fp5 on windows with apache and fpweb (cgi),
> the system variables can not be read from within a fp process, such as
> with getenv("username").  Anyone know of a work around for this?

The only reason I know of as to why filePro will not return a value
for getenv() is if there is no environment variable by that name.

And don't forget, environment variable names are case-sensitive, even
under Windows.  Are you sure that shouldn't be getenv("USERNAME")?

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