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Re: Get IP Address Help [message #170713 is a reply to message #170710]

Tue, 16 November 2010 06:04

Jim Higgins
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Registered: November 2010

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:51:23 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
<jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:

> On 11/15/2010 10:25 PM, Jim Higgins wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Is this on a page with a .php extension? Is your web server set up to
> parse php files?

Oh crap! HTM extension. And I know better! Changed the extension,
works fine now. Thank you, Jerry!

I'm a small step or two above the novice level, but I've been using
PHP and MySQL for very simple tasks long enough that I knew something
was seriously strange when the above wouldn't work. Didn't think the
answer would be quite so embarrassing.

Thanks again.

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		Get IP Address Help By: Jim Higgins on Tue, 16 November 2010 03:25
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 16 November 2010 03:51
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: richard on Tue, 16 November 2010 05:14
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Michael Fesser on Tue, 16 November 2010 06:16
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Jim Higgins on Tue, 16 November 2010 06:04
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: BootNic on Tue, 16 November 2010 16:00
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 16 November 2010 18:58
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Jim Higgins on Tue, 16 November 2010 22:34
		Re: Get IP Address Help By: Twayne on Fri, 26 November 2010 17:11

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