an interesting little problem ?

[habbardone]

Hi,
I want to allow clients to complain about an entry using a "report an entry to admin" button.

As the client does not need to "login" how can I see if one client is sending me lots of complaints ?

I was thinking of sending a hidden field that i can store in my db but I don't know what
data would be specific to a client ( by client I mean any surfer using my website ).

I guess I need to use cookies somehow to establish if the client has complained already ?
Maybe generate a random number and write it as a cookie and then check it ?

I haven't used cookies before - so I really don't know if this is the right solution

I also want to count up to see if I get more than three complaints against a particular entry - if I do I would want to suspend that entry automatically until I can look at it (to avoid offending more people) but again I need to know that they are from different clients (not just one person complaining three times)

Any ideas on how I can do this ?

[planetsim]

Well really you cant.

Why?

• User may use another computer
• User may not accept cookies
• User will more than likely have dynamic IP address
• User could be behind a proxy
  There are more as well.

You can try the cookie approach however it wont be 100% accurate.