Collect posters IP and store it

[royal_lemon]

I'm making a guestbook, and I have a form where people sign to it. But I also want to store the posters IP in the database. (So I can ban them later and so on)

[Phill]

I'm making a guestbook, and I have a form where people sign to it. But I also want to store the posters IP in the database. (So I can ban them later and so on)

What language are you writing it in?

[royal_lemon]

I'm writing it in PHP

[4xz]

Use $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], it contains the IP.

[goughy000]

What language are you writing it in?

not that this is in the PHP section or anything..?

Use $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], it contains the IP.

you may have problems with some ISPs..
try
http://www.laughing-buddha.net/jon/php/remoteip/

works for me 100% so far

[royal_lemon]

Thanks goughy!

[Phill]

not that this is in the PHP section or anything..?

I swear when I originally replied to this thread, it was in another forum? :confused:

[goughy000]

I swear when I originally replied to this thread, it was in another forum? :confused:

a mod might have moved it.. they should have made a note of it somewhere

[royal_lemon]

It was in the MySQL forum