RE: [PHP] forms and IP numbers

no offense, but that's a bad kludge for the problem. however, if you really want to do that, you could try checking $SERVER_NAME and $HTTP_REFERER and other enviornment variables like that... what would be easier (and better practise) to do is to verify that the incoming username is valid... > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc van Duivenvoorde [mailto:yhcmarc@gmx.net] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:10 AM > To: Php general lijst > Subject: [PHP] forms and IP numbers > > > A friend of mine found a bug in my messageboard code, this way he can post > with other (than in my database) nicknames from a local form. Now I want to > have the formhandler do a check from where the form is sent. If it is not > sent from my own webserver it has to display an error message. > > Thanks, > > Marc van Duivenvoorde > > > -- > 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 >