Capturing Ip Address

[eugene2009]

How would I go about using an “img src” tag to call a PHP script that looks like a .gif, but instead of showing a graphic that program looks at the server environment in order to capture the IP address.

 

please help. thank you

[slurpee]

Why can't you use $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]?

[eugene2009]

because say i want to put this on a myspace profile.. i cannot run scripts on myspace.. lol

[ignace]

<img src="http://my-cool-server.com/my-cool-page.php" width=".." height="..">

 

header('Content-Type: image/<image-mime>');
//your processing here..
//be sure to return an image at the end.

[eugene2009]

is this the proper way to do it?

 

<?
header('Content-Type: image/<image-mime>');

echo '<img src="img_url_here">';


?>

 

because it is not working

[ignace]

No something along the lines of:

 

header('Content-Type: ' . image_type_to_mime_type(IMAGETYPE_GIF));
$image = imagecreatetruecolor(180, 30);
imagestring($image, 3, 5, 5, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255));
imagegif($image);