Logging ip addresses

wild_eyed

i have a small website, but i want to track ip address as people use the message board on the site, eg when they click the submit button or when they enter the message board page, how can i do this?

Emboss

if you're using PHP look into REMOTE_ADDR

Tom Dunne

Isn't that info stored in the Web servers logs? I remember from my Apache days seeing ip addresses which accessed the site in the log files. Try looking in there.

wild_eyed

i am getting thefollowing error on the second line of this code
Parse error: parse error in /home/www/web277/web/postform.php on line 45

i.e. line 45 of the entire page = line 2 of this code.

can anyone tell me whats wrong.

noob.


[PHP]<?
$ip = $_SERVER;
$logged_string = $ip . "|" . . date("j M Y g:i a");
$file = fopen("userIP.log", "a");
fputs($file, $logged_string, strlen($logged_string));
fclose($file);
?> [/PHP]

Serbian

[PHP]<?
$ip = $_SERVER;
$logged_string = $ip . "|" . /* extra dot here -> */ . date("j M Y g:i a");
$file = fopen("userIP.log", "a");
fputs($file, $logged_string, strlen($logged_string));
fclose($file);
?> [/PHP]

wild_eyed

sorry, do u mean that i shud place an extra dot were the comments are?

like this?

[PHP]
<?
$ip = $_SERVER;
$logged_string = $ip . "|" . . . date("j M Y g:i a");
$file = fopen("userIP.log", "a");
fputs($file, $logged_string, strlen($logged_string));
fclose($file);
?>
[/PHP]

Zaltais

Originally posted by wild_eyed
sorry, do u mean that i shud place an extra dot were the comments are?

like this?

No he means you have an extra dot. It should be ->

[PHP]
<?
$ip = $_SERVER;
$logged_string = $ip . "|" . date("j M Y g:i a");
$file = fopen("userIP.log", "a");
fputs($file, $logged_string, strlen($logged_string));
fclose($file);
?>
[/PHP]

Serbian

As above. Sorry, I should have just posted the correct code instead of putting that comment in there .

wild_eyed

thanks is working grand, one thinbg though, it's placing all the log entries on the same line, how can i make it start a new line for each entry?

Serbian

Try the following:
[PHP]
<?
$ip = $_SERVER;
$logged_string = $ip . "|" . date("j M Y g:i a") . "\r\n";
$file = fopen("userIP.log", "a");
fputs($file, $logged_string, strlen($logged_string));
fclose($file);
?>
[/PHP]