Re: voting script

Why not use a cookie to track the people who have voted, and also check the IP. So if you get more than a certain number (X) of votes from a specific IP, then don't allow that IP to vote more that day. This would allow up to X people behind the same firewall to cast a vote each day, and would limit vote-spammers to voting X times a day. And most people who (who accept the cookie) will just be able to vote once. /Jesper Juhl - juhl@eisenstein.dk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oprindelig meddelelse >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Den 8/2/00, 6:32:00 PM, skrev robert@crazymooseNOSPAM.co.uk ("Apathy") til emnet [PHP] voting script: > Hi, > I'm not sure if this has a PHP solution or not, I thought I'd bounce it > off the people of this group though... > I have a site that gives users the ability to vote on sections of the site. > This is done by a php script that adds 1 to the "vote" field on a MySQL > database. > What I want to do is have a system that stops people from voting on each > section more than once (i.e. cheating). > I was going to do something that logged their ip for each section and would > stop multiple votes -- this would cause problems for people behind company > firewalls though, and also cause *huge* logs. Then I thought maybe sending a > cookie when they voted that would notify the script if they tried to vote > again -- this seems like the most feasible idea *I* have come up with so > far, I was wondering whether anyone has had better solutions for a similar > situation though? > Thanks in advance for any help, > Robert Morrissey > -- > Crazy Moose > http://www.crazymoose.co.uk > Providing Web Design, Hosting and IT Support > -- > 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