How to get user info using global.php?

[Penicillin]

Hello
I'm programming a php page.
I want to get the user id of a username without he's logged using global.php (NOT database).
How can I do that?

Thanks

[nexialys]

impossible the way you want. the engine need to check the database on each click, because the engine deal with sessions, not cookies for authentication.

in the Articles tab on top right, you can have access to some FAQ... like this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=187388

[Penicillin]

I have been using database and it worked, but I faced many problems in non-english usernames.
My vb database is ISO not UTF8.
What should I do?

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Please help