Thank you for your help Marco & Simon. No doubt, your code is much cleaner and better. One more question, without any filter or something could be my original code somehow compromised (mean some security bug)? Or rather was a major problem in the possibility of a script crash? On 4/26/12, marco@xxxxxxxxxx <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You definitly should. There were some bugs (even in bigger applications > like Coppermine f.e.) that have been introduced by clients sending > manipulated ip oder hostname Strings. > > For the IP address simply check if it is a valid IP4 or IP6 tupel. There > are checks for that. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php