URGENT! Bann?

[Jonathan]

How do you ban someone from your site using their IP addresS?

[pyro]

in PHP:

untested code
<?PHP
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == 000.000.000.000) {
header ("Location:http://www.yourdomain.com/banned.php");
}
?>That code must go at the very top of your page, before any content is printed.

[Jonathan]

If I add more do I do this?


<?PHP
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == 000.000.000.000 || $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]== 000.000.000.001) {
header ("Location:http://www.yourdomain.com/banned.php");
}
?>


And thanks for that speedy reply!

[pyro]

Yep, looks good (except for the header, which I know is from the forums...)

[Jonathan]

It has to be on the same line right?

[pyro]

The if statement? Yes...

[Jonathan]

Is this okay?

[php]
<?PHP
if ($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == 222.222.222.222) {
header ("Location:banned.html");
}
?>

[pyro]

I just thought of something. You'd better enclose the IP's you are banning in quotes. Also, for the header, you can use a relative path, but you are supposed to use an absolute path.

[PeOfEo]

IP addresses change though. So you might ant to ban a range of ip addresses to keep them out for good.

[Jonathan]

how do you bann a range of ip addresses?>

[PeOfEo]

I dont know what it would look like in php but it would be something like
if remoteaddr < someip and > someip then redirect. It would just be a simple if statment with less than and greater then in it.

[pyro]

To take all IPs from 000.000.000.000 to 000.000.000.999 use if ($ip >= "000.000.000.000" && $ip <= "000.000.000.999") Note that by banning an IP block, you will potentially ban a large number of users...

[PeOfEo]

But by not banning a block the user simply has to reconnect on another ip to come back. The best solution would be a timed system where an ip block is banned for several hours then is lifted, but it would require a data base that sotres the ip and I am guessing some xml or a system that logs the time then on page load it can be checked and unbanned by another user. But it would be very very complicated and involve xml with a server sid elanguage most likely.

[Robert Wellock]

It may have been easier to use .htaccess to ban the IP numbers.

[Daot Lagorille]

As all my "rap artist" friends say:

"This **** is tight!"

Nice bit o' the ol' "php" code there.

[PeOfEo]

o...k

[pyro]

Lol... glad you like it... :D