It is very simple: $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lars Kristiansson wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> This is probably the wrong forum. Please redirect me if im out of place. >> >> I would like to find out what IP address my visitor uses when visiting a >> php script page on my domain. This page would contain a form in which the >> visitor would state his/her message. >> >> My goal is to create purchase-orders written on unique files, and to >> separate them my idea was to baptize files with the IP addresses, which >> would ive each visitor an unique purchase-order... >> >> Any hints to a newbie? > > http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php > 'REMOTE_ADDR' > > But don't rely on it to be the same each time for a customer. If they are on > a shared connection then the ISP may give them a different IP each time they > access the internet. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
