Re: voting script

From: Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 07:35:50 +0000
Subject: Re: voting script
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Apathy wrote: > 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

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