[UPHPU] hostname missing in CLI script

[Richard K Miller]

$hostname = exec('hostname');   // this runs /bin/hostname on my machine

A CLI script, of course, wouldn't have any concept of virtual hosts,  
but perhaps the hostname supplied by the OS would suffice.

Richard




On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

> I have a CLI PHP script that is run by cron that is missing nearly  
> every _SERVER and _ENV variable. I understand that this is generally  
> the case, but there is one variable that I really, really need. I  
> need to know the host name of the server that the script is running  
> on. Every possible value that I could use to deduce that from…
>
> $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
> $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
> $_SERVER['HOSTNAME']
> $_ENV['HOSTNAME']
>
>
> …are empty. Any ideas? Any way that I can get one (or more) of those  
> values to be populated? Any other way to determine what server I'm on?
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