Meridian2000

I've seen on some forums and webpages "Your IP is logged" how do they do this? is it something simple I can use on my own website?

Robert Collins

I don't know how members are able to do it which I have seen but for you to do it on your own Web Site is easy since all Web Sites record the IP of the visitor in the Environmental List. It's been too long for me to remember how to access this list but it's there and I know I used to do it using a CGI program but it may also be possible to access it using embedded Java or VB or PHP code in the document itself. Someone will visit this thread and post the answer. Sorry I just don't remember how.

the master

I only have an answer for PHP.

$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]

"The IP address from which the user is viewing the current page."

Theres more stuff about $_SERVER here

Meridian2000

if at all possible I'd like the solution in vbscript, I'd like to use the resulting variable to save to a database

the master

Hmm. I would recommend using javascript instead of VBscript for compatibility.

I found this link on google. I cant open it here because its blocked by my works proxy but it looks like it should work. It does say IE5+ though so again its bad for compatibility.

As for saving to a database then i dont know. Usually things like that are done using a server side script like PHP/ASP etc.

It would be a lot easier to use PHP to do the whole thing. Using VBscript reduces compatibility and if everything is processed on the client side then someone could easily fake their IP

Meridian2000

that's great, thanks