Logging info only once! how?

evo4ever

Hey peaps. I've created a security system which logs various info about the client, eg: ip, os, hostname, browser etc. How do I stop php from logging the same info all the time? Say if I refreash the page with the script in, it keeps on logging, regards of it being the same info! how do i stop it? I only want it to log different info, ie different IPs and hostnames, broswer and os are alright.

my code:

<?php

$fp = fopen ("./file.htm", "a");

$stamp = date("H:i:s d/m/y");
$host = gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);
$useragent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];

$line = "<p><b><font size='4'>Date & time:</b></font> $stamp || 
		 <font size='4'><b>IP:</b></font> $REMOTE_ADDR || 
		 <font size='4'><b>Host:</b></font> $host || 
		 <font size='4'><b>Browser & OS:</b></font> $useragent</p>\n";

if (fputs($fp, $line)) { 
echo "successful write<br>\n";

} else {
echo "<font color='#FF0000'>failed!</font>";
}

?>

any suggestions? thx.

128kb_com

I would say maybe a hidden field but that would only work with navigation and not a refresh, how'bout a session variable? Or, read the file for a host match and check the timestamp before logging.

Angus

Did you find a solution to this ?

daphreeek

use a MySQL database and before you store the data in the database, check if an entry is already there with the same ip.

This way u only get 1 entry per ip

alternately, if you want to still use the file writing method u hav already, read the file first and look for an identical entry. if there is no identical entry then add it.

personally i'd do the mysql option coz it means u can sort and group things easily (ie. for a stats page)

hope this helps 🙂
- Matt