Recording Remote Address

[basil]

I have two forums that member fillin and info is recorded to a flat file (Actualy each form records to two different files). In both cases, I want to record the person's IP address. I asked a few days ago and was told that the best way was to use $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] which id did in the first form and it works great. However, when I tried it in my second form, it will not record the IP. Here's the code:

$fg=fopen("XXXXXXXXXXXXX/file2.txt", "a");
$addguess="Member # ".$membernum.", "."Guess= ".$firstguess.$secondguess.$thirdguess.$fourthguess.", "."# Correct= ".$counter." Day= ".$date." IP= ".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]."\n";
flock($fg, 2); //lock file for writing
fwrite($fg, $addguess);
flock($fg, 3); // release write lock
fclose($fg); // close date file after writing member number

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It will record everything except the IP. Any ideas why it will not record the IP?

Thanks,
Cy

[davedorran]

Try using $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] instead of $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]

$HTTP_SERVER_VARS is the array name used prior to version 4.1.0

it should be noted that $SERVER is superglobal variable ie. you wouldn't have to declare it using global $SERVER; within a function. $HTTP_SERVER_VARS is not a superglobal variable.

Dave.