Getting User information in PHP
Written by admin on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 in PHP Tutorials, Tutorials.
In the previous tutorial we showed you how to get a user’s IP using PHP. However there is a way that you can get vasts amount of information about the user in PHP. We will now teach you how to get all of this information.
Getting information about the website or visitor mainly depends on the $_SERVER variable. This is a pre-defined global variable in PHP that is always set and can be used anywhere. Below are the different types of information you can get from $_SERVER.