The simplest way to get the visitor’s/client’s IP address is using the $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] or $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_HOST’] variables.
However, sometimes this does not return the correct IP address of the visitor, so we can use some other server variables to get the IP address.
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// Function to get the client IP address function get_client_ip() { $ipaddress = ''; if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']; else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']; else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']; else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']; else if(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; else $ipaddress = 'UNKNOWN'; return $ipaddress; } |