Insert author(username) variable from forums?

Okay, you guys are gonna hate me for always posting my problems here, but this is where I seem to get my answers the quickest. And i have a doozy of a problem.

I have a form on my page (below) that i want to submit all the variables that are submitted, plus a hidden one that contains the username of the logged in user.

   <form action="includes/insert.php" method="post">
        <div class="row">
            <input name="author" type="hidden" value="<?php $username ?>">
          <div style="float:left; width:64px; line-height:18px;">Title:</div>
          <div style="float:left; width:140px;">
            <input name="title" type="text" class="txt_input">
          </div>
        </div>
	<div class="row">
          <div style="float:left; width:64px; line-height:18px;">Sub-Title:</div>
          <div style="float:left; width:140px;">
            <input name="subtitle" type="text" class="txt_input">
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="row">
          <div style="float:left; width:64px; line-height:18px;">Article:</div>
          <div style="float:left;">
            <textarea rows="10" cols="50" name="article" class="txt_area"></textarea>
          </div>
        </div>
     <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="Create New Article" class="btn_submit" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 200px;">
   </form>

Code (markup):

As you can see i want it to input the title, subtitle, content and up the top there, the author. I have a script on my main page that echos the username of the logged in user via this variable $user->data['username']. This is possible because in that script i have a file (config.php) included. I cannot include config.php in this form, or in the insert script (shown below), because it gives me a blank page, with no text or anything. Earlier on in the code i have mad ethe variable $username = #user->date['username'] in hopes that it would remember that and i would be able to return it as the author of the article. This however did not work. Does anyone have any idea how i could do this?

insert.php

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","soldiers_forum","password");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("soldiers_content", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO articles (article_title, article_sub, article_content, article_author)
VALUES
('$_POST[title]','$_POST[subtitle]','$_POST[article]','$_POST[author]')";

echo $sql;

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
echo "1 record added";

mysql_close($con)
?>

Code (markup):

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help you may provide

P.S. My forum is phpBB3, and my site is http://soldiersoffortune.darkstargamers.com if you need to see anything on it.

You wont be able to get to this script because it is protected for admins only.

 

I can make it work for you

Please contact me by pm

Regards

Alex