RE: [PHP] Getting a client's IP address

A better method is to use: if (getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)) { $ip=getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR); } else { $ip=getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); } This way you don't pick up the proxy address. If you then want to only allow access from certain IPs you can use something like: if (!strstr($ip, "192.168.0.")) { header("HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden"); exit; } this would only allow people with 192.168.0.x IPs (common for LANs) to access your page. If you're running Apache you might also like to look at order deny,allow deny from all allow from mydomain.com Cheers Jon -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watkinson [mailto:d.watkinson@mightymatch.com] Sent: 16 October 2001 11:36 To: Brian Aitken; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Getting a client's IP address $remoteip = getenv ("REMOTE_ADDR"); -----Original Message----- From: Brian Aitken [mailto:b.aitken@hatii.gla.ac.uk] Sent: 16 October 2001 11:42 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Getting a client's IP address Hiya Anyone know if it's possible to get the client's IP address? What I'm wanting to do is be able to differentiate between users accessing the system from the local intranet and users accessing the system from anywhere else. I've looked through the documentation and the only thing I could find was a user note that says: "I filed a wishlist bug because I do not see any way to get the IP address of the client." Anyone know if this is the case and if so is there another way to limit access to local users? Thanks Brian -- 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 -- 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 ********************************************************************** 'The information included in this Email is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality' **********************************************************************