Ripped from the PHP Manual:
function ipCheck() {
/*
This function checks if user is coming behind proxy server. Why is this important?
If you have high traffic web site, it might happen that you receive lot of traffic
from the same proxy server (like AOL). In that case, the script would count them all as 1 user.
This function tries to get the real IP address.
Note that getenv() function doesn't work when PHP is running as ISAPI module
*/
if (getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP')) {
$ip = getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP');
}
elseif (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')) {
$ip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');
}
elseif (getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED')) {
$ip = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED');
}
elseif (getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR')) {
$ip = getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR');
}
elseif (getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED')) {
$ip = getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED');
}
else {
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}
if(empty($ip)){
return 0;
}
return $ip;
}