Locked Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Is there anyway to uniquely identify a user? (Other than ip) Basically what i want to do is be able to ban certain users from my site. I dont want to use ips because they are dynamic and proxys could be a problem. I thought about using mac addresses but that would only work if they were directly connected to the server. Cookies... could be deleted etc. Anyone have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/104943-identifying-unique-users/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanWhitehouse Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 host, store there host in the database i think it's something like $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/104943-identifying-unique-users/#findComment-537175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locked Posted May 9, 2008 Author Share Posted May 9, 2008 $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] would echo the servers domain. If you meant something like one.208.wightcablenorth.net (what the users ip resolves too), that would change with the ip Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/104943-identifying-unique-users/#findComment-537180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanWhitehouse Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 hmm, well there arn't many more ways (if any) of recognizing unique users. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/104943-identifying-unique-users/#findComment-537182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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