RE: [PHP] IP of server?

Thanks, but most variables such as SERVER_ADDR and SERVER_NAME are not set when you run a PHP script from the command line (or from cron). Write a script that calls phpinfo() and then use 'php -f' to run it and you'll see how little environment information you get. Lance -----Original Message----- From: wx [mailto:wx@wxcs.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:09 PM To: Lance Lovette Subject: Re: [PHP] IP of server? Why just not use the built in variables: $SERVER_ADDR $SERVER_NAME not that tough, :) - Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Lovette" <lance-php@dailyrating.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 11:27 AM Subject: [PHP] IP of server? > I want to base the database a PHP script uses on the IP address of the > server running the script. What is the fastest way to get the IP address of > the server from a script? I could use environment variables but they are > unreliable (when run from cron for example, the environment doesn't have all > the variables you would expect). I wrote the following function based on a > Perl firewall script that uses ifconfig, but it has too much overhead to > call every time I connect to the database. All I really want to do is add a > conf variable to php.ini that gets read at startup and is cached from then > on. Any ideas? > > Thanks! > Lance > > ---- > > // string gethostaddress([string]) > // > // Returns the IP address of a network interface for the local host. > // Returns false on error or if the address cannot be determined. > // > // Note: This function shells the ifconfig command so call sparingly. > // > function gethostaddress($interface = "eth0") > { > $inetaddr = false; // assume failure > > $ifconfig = /sbin/ifconfig $interface; > if (ereg("inet addr:([.0-9]+)", $ifconfig, $ifconfigparts)) > $inetaddr = $ifconfigparts[1]; > > return ($inetaddr) ? $inetaddr : false; > } > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net