[00lissauers]

I have designed a report form for my forum hosting site. Seei it in action [here] Now this send an email to me when someone uses it, however I would like to know if I could add their IP address as a hidden input. I would use this to block people who continually use the form to spam me. Alternatively would it be possible to add some sort of image verification ? Or make them enter a specific answer into a box. I could ask a question such as 'What color is a tree' and make them enter brown before it would send ?

Does anyone know of anything simple I could do ?

Using script from matts script archive (automailer)

[covert215]

Image verifications are called CAPTCHAs. I'm sure you can find them around the net.

To get a user's IP address, inside your php page that sends the mail, enter:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

and then add it to the message.

Or, if your form is on a php page, use the hidden field

<input type="hidden" value="<?php $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>" />

[00lissauers]

Thankyou so much for your help

[brendandonhu]

That would leave the value of your hidden field blank and not record their IP address. It's not a good method to use anyway since the user can spoof it.

[namenotfound]

Originally Posted by covert215

Image verifications are called CAPTCHAs. I'm sure you can find them around the net.

To get a user's IP address, inside your php page that sends the mail, enter:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

and then add it to the message.

Or, if your form is on a php page, use the hidden field

<input type="hidden" value="<?php $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>" />

Wouldn't it have to be like this:

<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>" />

[brendandonhu]

Yes but that could still be spoofed/forged by the user (they could put a fake IP address into your form value.)