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Re: Get IP Address Help [message #170791 is a reply to message #170709] Fri, 26 November 2010 17:11 Go to previous message
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In news:ocu3e6tdjs4rbm7pm43haa32hfdtv3d9vb(at)4ax(dot)com,
Jim Higgins <invalid(at)invalid(dot)invalid> typed:
> PHP 5.2.13
>
> I'm trying to capture a visitor's IP address in a web form
> (a ballot for club office) and am coming up empty handed.
> Purpose is to head off ballot box stuffing. All sorts of
> Googling keeps coming up with the following...
>
> <input type="hidden" name="ip"
> value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ?>">
>
> which just gives me the literal PHP script between the
> double quotes instead of the voter's IP address.
>
> Help please?

It's easy to get a visitor's IP address, but ... realize that this IP
address will NOT last.
If it's a dialup, EVERY time they exit/enter, they'll have a new IP.
If it's DSL, the IP changes on usually a set schedule with a few
exceptions. Most seem to get a new IP at least every 24 hours or less, plus
the user can easily kill and request a new address anytime he wants to.
I don't know what FIOS does; it's a different animal and so if IPV6.

Your IP CAN be changed even as you are using your client for access.

You really need to make yourself familiar with "the man ual" and other PHP
resources; then you wouldn't have had to ask here.
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10327697

http://www.phpf1.com/tutorial/get-ip-address.html

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/php-howto-read-ip-address-of-remote-computerbr owser/

Google only has 16 million results on a search, so ... learn how to use it
for what you need. These are all from the first page of displays.
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