Ip-Address's

[joeysarsenal]

ey guys, just adding finishing touches to my website, was wondering if there is a way to write to a log, when a user enters the website.

So it writes to log with ip-address and date.

thanks in advanced

[pocobueno1388]

Yes, there is a way.

 

Your going to have to know how to get their IP address and the date

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$date = date("Y-m-d");

 

Now your going to have to know how to write it to a file.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/filewrite.php

[joeysarsenal]

Thanks for the quick reply, ill have a play around with it now and let you know how go.

[joeysarsenal]

Yes, there is a way.

 

Your going to have to know how to get their IP address and the date

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$date = date("Y-m-d");

 

Now your going to have to know how to write it to a file.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/filewrite.php

 

thats the example they had at that site. With other information to open and overwrite. But i think this one is more revelant

"

 

$myFile = "testFile.txt";

$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");

$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

$stringData = "Tracy Tanner\n";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);"

 

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];//variable ? 
$date = date("Y-m-d"); //variable ? 

$myFile = "log.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $ip";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "$date";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);"
?>

cant really test it here. No Xampp on these comps.

 

[pocobueno1388]

You have a few errors

 

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];//variable ? 
$date = date("Y-m-d"); //variable ? 

$myFile = "log.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $ip;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $date;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

[joeysarsenal]

ty i let you know how i go at home.

Thanks again.

[cooldude832]

before you do this, that will fail because you have the 'w type of opening which will wipe the file clean on each rewrite, use the 'a' instead of w and you be better.  also you have no delimiter in there, and you can write it all in 1 srting try

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];//variable ? 
$date = date("Y-m-d"); //variable ? 

$myFile = "log.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $date.", ".$ip."\r\r\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);
?>

that has a delimiter and it spaces it like

Date, IP

Date, IP

for ease of reading.

[joeysarsenal]

yer i didnt think that "delimiter" was imported so i took it out

it was the first time ive ever used something like this.

Thanks for all the help guys.

[cooldude832]

technically its not, but if you want to read the file without a bunch of work it is.

[Zane]

Webservers OSs usually create an access log with this information already in them

[atlanta]

yer i didnt think that "delimiter" was imported so i took it out

it was the first time ive ever used something like this.

Thanks for all the help guys.

I say the delimiter is important it will allow you to read the access log better.