How to track the IP Address of the clients who post the feedback?

I need guidelines/code of tracing the ip address of the clients who post the feedback.

Please help me.

Thanks
Wangdi

 

getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); for the IP Address of the visitor

 

<?php
    $client_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>

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There are some nice web based API's (to save you having the database) that will also return the users location based on the ip address.

 

Dear Johnta,
Thanks a lot for your response, i have done exactly with your code, but in my database table i am getting ip address as 127.0.0.1, but when i check to my computer i couldn't find the above ip address. For your kind reference, i have mentioned below the simple insert statement.

<?php

if($_POST['register'])
{
$name = $_POST['firstname'];
$contA = $_POST['contadd'];
$contNo = $_POST['contNo'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$sub = $_POST['subject'];
$comments = $_POST['comment'];
$date = date("Y-m-d");
$client_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$qry = "Insert into feedback(fldName,fldContAddress,fldContNo,fldEmail,fldSubject,fldComment,fldDate,ip) values('$name','$contA','$contNo','$email','$sub','$comments','$date','$client_ip')";

echo $qry;
mysql_query($qry) or die("Cannot insert the records, please try again");

echo "<script type='text/javascript'>";
//echo "alert('Your feedback is send successfuly')";
echo "location.href = ('confirmmessage.php')";
echo "</script>";
//}
}
?>

please kindly help to me.

 

I think because you are using a local, but if you use this code in your real web site you will see the IP correctly, I tried this function before and I seen the same problem but when I used in my web site I get the IP correctly, if you need also to get the country and city of the user from the IP this following function will give you:

	 
function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
{
   //function to find country and city name from IP address
   //Developed by Roshan Bhattarai 
   //Visit http://roshanbh.com.np for this script and more.
  
  //verify the IP address for the  
  ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
  // This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
  $ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array
  //get the XML result from hostip.info
  $xml = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);
  //get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
  preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);
  //assing the city name to the array
  $ipDetail['city']=$match[2]; 
  //get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
  preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);
  //assign the country name to the $ipDetail array 
  $ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];
  //get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
  preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
  $ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the country code to array
  //return the array containing city, country and country code
  return $ipDetail;
} 
  



$IPDetail=countryCityFromIP($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); 
echo $IPDetail['country']; //country of that IP address 
echo $IPDetail['city']; //outputs the IP detail of the city

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