Can you find an IP address with PHP?

Now that I have finished my forum, I am working on a chat room sorta thing.

I know PHP isn't meant for this, But I wanna try, A birthday pressie for my friend who likes chat rooms.


How can you find an IP address with PHP, or is it even possible. I want to make a block users system.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

PHP isn't the ideal language to make a chatroom. You're gonna have to continually refresh the page.

Yeah...

I went through all the $_SERVER[] things on Dreamweaver MX, and That is the one that brought Up an IP address, but I thought I could have been my sites IP address 'cos it was done at the server.

So thanks!

As for the page refreshing, I know! Page refreshing seems like the only way.


Thanks for your help.

Matt

There are other ways of doing a real-time chat ;)

However, they are difficult...

::] krycek [::

I have a flash chatroom, But I didn't make it and no-one ever uses it.

I also got a room from centralchat.net, Which Is Java. What would really help if I could find examples of flash and PHP.

If any of you have ever been to habbohotel.com (http://www.habbohotel.com) and been on the chat there, you will know that you can mix Shockwave and, I think it's ASP, And I have seen Flash and PHP.

Any more help appreciated.

Matt

A thought....

You might not want to have the entire page reload, that'll require a lot of bandwidth. You can always have an iframe with style="display: none;" that links to a text file with the messages and have the page read from that.

We are getting off topic now. The original question of how to obtain the users IP address using PHP was answered so I will close this thread. If you wish to discuss creating chatrooms in PHP then open a new thread..