Re: Retriving IP from web visitors question

He's not using PHP and this would be way to much work to change it.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
To: "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Retriving IP from web visitors question


> You can echo the IP address to the screen with php with the following
> command:
>
> <? echo "$REMOTE_ADDR" ?>
>
> As a form input:
>
> <input type="hidden" value="<? $REMOTE_ADDR " ?>">
>
> On the form is submitted to, you can echo the value of the above variable
> (which is the IP address).  I haven't tried the code above exactly this
way,
> but it is very similar to something that I've done in the past that worked
> well.
>
> We did it at http://www.schoolpad.net/page.php?TeacherID=293&Page=3 and it
> works very well.  It almost stopped our vulgar email problems completely.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith D Sellars
> WebGraffix
> www.webgraffix.com
>
> "Making database sites seem easy"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002(at)rogers.com>
> To: "HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:10 PM
> Subject: Retriving IP from web visitors question
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > A friend of mine has a website with a form on it that users fill in and
> the
> > results get sent to x(at)x.com. That address then sends an auto response to
> the
> > email address that was put in the form.
> >
> > With that out of the way, he wants to be able to capture the IP address
of
> > the person filling out the form and store it in the original form, so
when
> > the auto response gets sent back it will show the IP address of who
filled
> > out the form.
> >
> >  How would you go about capturing the IP address.
> >
> >  All this is due to spam problems from a few idiots.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Beauford
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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