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ReferenceError: gethostname is not defined

I tried to assign a var with gethostname() (1) and with $_SERVER(2) and I keep on getting ReferenceError: gethostname is not defined.

All I want is to get the current system name into a var using JS which runs in my PHP. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE:

var myVar = gethostname();

or 

var myVar = $_SERVER;
Solution

  • So, I approached this whole issue a little differently, and my initially approach was wrong to begin with.

    I decided to get the IP address by executing

    $ipAddress = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

    Then I wanted to get the host name, so I did a shell execution: 

    $myArg = "nslookup $ipAddress";

    Eventually I used stripos to get the start ("name = ") and end ("domain.name") positions of the host name, and eventually I used substr to get the hostname out.

    I will use the result to pass it to the JS.