how to track visitors IP?

Hi all.
I am having difficulty in tracking the IP addresses of visitors on my site.
How can I use the gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); function to track the visitors IP.

I want to have a template in which I press a button I should see the IP of the Visitor.

Please help me to solve this problem.

regards,
Amit Chouhan
amitchouanji@gmail.com

Just use the $_SERVER variable. The gethostbyaddress function will try to resolve that to a hostname.



echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

thanx cubsfan,
can u please tell me how can I use this function in a form that i am using for PST method <form action="" method="POST">
I want to call this function when i submit it through a button.

regards,
Amit Chouhan
amitchouhanji@gmail.com

If you only want it to show when the form is posted, check if the submit button is pressed and echo it out based on that. So if you have a submit input on your form

<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Click Me'>

then you can do



if ($_POST['submit']) {
echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}

Thanx again ..
yeah it worked.
I am trying to learn more functions to track hits and Ip address of the visitors on my site.
thanx for ur time .

regards,
Amit Chouhan,
amitchouhanji@gmail.com