php script for tracking IP numbers & login info

NormanH

I have a friend with a commercial website. She sells monthly access to the site (no its not what you're thinking!) where members are allowed to download files that she creates. Recently her bandwidth usage has gone way up, but not site membership. At first she suspected someone was hotlinking to images on her site, but her Website host said that wasn't happening. Now she suspects some members are sharing their usernames and passwords with other people. She doesn't know much about php or other scripting so I told her I would try to get some info for her. Basically, I think she just needs a script that will log users IP and login info each time they log in to the site so she can track usage of individual usernames and she if they are being used by multiple IP numbers in varying locations. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find such a script? and directions on how to use it...

Norm

laserlight

Actually, assuming that her member system is written in PHP, it would make more sense to integrate such tracking into the login system. $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] can be used. Of course, there's some measure of inaccuracy, and legitimate use may still result in differing IP addresses recorded over time.

NormanH

I don't think she uses any php scripting at all. She Emails a username and password to people that pay for the month and the download files are just placed in folders that are password protected resources. So there really is no login system in place right now. I wasn't sure exactly how she was doing it until now when I took a closer look at her site.

Obviously she will need some kind of membership management script that can issue unique usernames and passwords for each paid member that will expire after 30 days.