RE: [PHP] basic voting

Since you haven't divulged your task, I'm guessing from comments that receving 24 votes from faked emails is a really bad thing. In that case you have no choice but to thoroughly authenticate your users! Hey, at least it's not a complicated thing to do, just kind of pain on everyones end. -----Original Message----- From: Justin French [mailto:justin@indent.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:10 AM To: David Buerer; 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: Re: [PHP] basic voting on 12/09/02 12:12 AM, David Buerer (david@pladesigns.com) wrote: > Justin, you've just asked for a way to restrict the possible number of votes > from any one person to 1, however, you don't want to find out anything about > that person! I'd consider that a restriction to getting lots of votes in a quick manner... :) > Although I certainly understand your position, you either have to get from > them some information specific to the person, like, name, email, DL, SSN, > and only allow one vote entry per id, or you have track based on cookie, ip > address, etc. A simple non-obtrusive way would be to track by IP, but then > you've got the problem of users behind proxies, or multiple users at one > computer, or ???? IP address' aren't an option. > You pretty much have to ask for something like email or name, or be willing > to accept multiple votes from the same person. There's NOTHING to stop me from entering 24 different names or email address', so I don't consider these options either. > Sorry. It's not your fault :) Justin French