how to get ip address

[sriram]

is there any function in php to display the ip address of my localhost??
pls help

[Amgine]

Okay, I don't feel like deleting what I quick responded with...

Here's what you really wanted:

$host_ip = gethostbyname('your.host.domain');

Here's my way of getting the user's IP (which I now realize was not what you were asking for...)

/* ************************************
 * getIP
 * ************************************
 * Note:
 *	Retrieves a reasonably accurate IP address from the php environment
 * Found on php.net/manual/en
 * ************************************
 * @return STRING IP address or UNKNOWN
 * ************************************ */
function getIP() {
	$ip;

	if (getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP")) $ip = getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP");
	else if(getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")) $ip = getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");
	else if(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR")) $ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
	else $ip = "UNKNOWN";

	return $ip;

}

[edit] I hate typos...[/edit]