time stamp with form submission

[edlundcl]

i would like to submit a form where it records the time of day it was submitted and if possible, info about where it was submitted from..either a machine type, ip address.. something to that nature. does anyone know how to do this?

[jim_keller]

in PHP, you can get the user's IP address in the variable $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

If you want a nicely formatted date, use

date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");

so, you could do

$submit_date = date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A");
$submit_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']

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you can get information about the date function here:
http://www.php.net/date

and information about the $_SERVER variable here:
http://www.php.net/reserved.variables

Jim Keller
http://jim.centerfuse.net/projects/

[tommynanda]

Adding to Jim
$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] - Machine Type(OS,Browser)

$getmachine = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

[edlundcl]

thanks a lot that's extremely helpful!!