Block a single user from my webpage and guestbook

CLC1999

I am trying to write a script to block a certain troublesome user from viewing my webpage but especially from writing in my guestbook. I am a very new to PHP scripting and have been learning by modifying pre-written scripts. My guestbook uses a PHP script to access a MySQL database.

If anyone has a way to do this, I would appreciate the insight.

Thanks
Cathy

LordShryku

How do you intend to identify the user?

oprpg

I am assuming by IP address... but do you know his ip address?

LordShryku

The php ip address collector is really not reliable, but it's $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

CLC1999

Yes, I know his IP address from looking at my hit counter's statistics, which logs IP addresses.

suntra

Is it ALWAYS the same IP?

CLC1999

Yes...he's been on my site 165 times in the past few weeks and all with the same address.

suntra

If you are ABSOLUTELY sure he always uses the same IP, do something like this :

<?
if($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == "abc.def.ghi.jkl") {
    exit("Sorry, you're banned! Mouahahahahahahah!<BR/>\n");
}
?>

... where abc.def.ghi.jkl is the IP address ...

Also, place it at the top of the page(s).

CLC1999

I tried the script and it seemed to work well when i put my IP in to test it; but when i changed the address to the one i want to ban, i am still banned...otherwise, that's exactly what I am looking for.

suntra

Can you post the code you wrote?

CLC1999

here's what I used.

<?
if($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] == "208.13.105.120") {
exit("An internal error has prevented this page from loading. Please contact system administrator.<BR/>\n");
}
?>

I put it right after the html title tag so that it would not display any of the page.

As I said, it started blocking everyone.