Obtaining a visitors IP adress
Obtaining a visitors IP adress
ghost | 5294 Reads | ok i had some problems the other day with someone using a email spoofer i created in php against me. My page originally wasnt able to get the ip of visitors to the page so i had no way of tracking them down.
Recently though one of my friends created this bit of code and now the ip adresses of all people who visit the page will be stored in a text file in the directory.
Here is the code: <? $ipFile = "ip.txt"; // text file that stores IP addresses $fp_ips = fopen($ipFile, "r"); // Open the file $ip = fgets($fp_ips, 20); // Get the IPs stored already fclose($fp_ips); // close the file $fp_ips = fopen($ipFile, "a"); // open it again so we start at line 0 (first one) fputs($fp_ips, $REMOTE_ADDR . "\r\n"); // add the visiting IP address + carriage return + new line fclose($fp_ips); // close the file ?>
Its pretty self explanatory, with the //comments there.
So what you need to do to get this to work though, is create a text document ip.txt and set both this page and the ip.txt page to chmod 777 so it can be written to.
Thats pretty much it and i hope you find this useful. Im just awaiting the moment the person uses my page again so i can nail them.
Please vote and leave comments. Thanks -Frozen Flame
ghost 18 years ago
See, I've done code like that then but i also made it log their visit like how long they stay but great code btw the commens make it look messy i was like oO whats wrong with this guy
ghost 18 years ago
lol sorry about that. just trying to make it easily understandable what everything does. thanks for the comments btw
ghost 18 years ago
Umm what do you mean by "set both this page and the ip.txt page to chmod 777 so it can be written to" Does ip.txt have to be empty, and what is chmod777. New to this.
ghost 17 years ago
Faucet, when you chmod to 777, you give all permissions on a folder (read/write/execute). This can be done by right clicking the file and clicking properties. However, if you are using windows, don't worry about it since it is insecure and will let you write to the file even if you shouldn't have permission to.
Frozen Flame: The code is pretty good for beginners, but to optimize it so it runs faster and only has to open the file once, I would simply do -
<?php
$fp = fopen('ip.txt', 'a+');
fputs($fp, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']."\r\n");
fclose($fp);
?>
a+ means it will open the file for reading and writing, the a stands for 'append' and it is better to use the longer version for IP because not all servers have the shorthand enabled.
ghost 17 years ago
Stupid UBB screwed up the code… should still work though, just insert line breaks after the ';' to make it look nice.
ghost 17 years ago
erm… this might be a noobish comment, but all I get in ip.txt is 'rn' - why? where is the IP?