if you really want to mess with them.. only show the user with the NULL IP address all the spam posts.. .make them think that they've been successful On 3/29/06, Rahul S. Johari <rjohari@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ave, > > I¹ve run into a slight problem. We maintain a Guestbook for our company¹s > website. Lately we have been getting a lot of ³Spam² entries into the > Guestbook. > > I added a snippet into the PHP Script & a field in the mySQL database to > record the IP Address of posters. However, for the SPAM posts, it records > ³Null² instead of an IP Address. I¹m using $REMOTE_ADDR to records the IP. > It records IP Addresses of any genuine poster... But NULL for the spam > poster. > > What else can I do to block the SPAM entry? Is there some other Unique > Identifier that I can record of the Spam poster and then block him? > > Thanks, > > Rahul S. Johari > Coordinator, Internet & Administration > Informed Marketing Services Inc. > 500 Federal Street, Suite 201 > Troy NY 12180 > > Tel: (518) 687-6700 x154 > Fax: (518) 687-6799 > Email: rahul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.informed-sources.com > > > -- Joe Harman --------- * My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
