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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