RE: [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? Why not test for the enviromental var, if its not there then call your function, if it is use it? James -- James Moore jmoore@php.net PHP: http://www.php.net/ PHP QA Team: http://qa.php.net/ PHP-GTK: http://gtk.php.net/ VL-SRM: http://www.vl-srm.net/