Here's a fairly safe way to get the username from uid even if the posix extension isn't installed.
<?php
function GetUsernameFromUid($uid)
{
if (function_exists('posix_getpwuid'))
{
$a = posix_getpwuid($uid);
return $a['name'];
}
elseif (strstr(php_uname('s'), 'BSD'))
{
exec('id -u ' . (int) $uid, $o, $r);
if ($r == 0)
return trim($o['0']);
else
return $uid;
}
elseif (is_readable('/etc/passwd'))
{
exec(sprintf('grep :%s: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1', (int) $uid), $o, $r);
if ($r == 0)
return trim($o['0']);
else
return $uid;
}
else
return $uid;
}
?>
