email ip address of visitors

[kp17]

Hi all, I created a short code to recieve an email every time someone visits my website that includes their IP address but I've found that I'm recieving a lot of IPs from spiders. I've noticed all of their IP's start with 119.63.198., so I was hoping there was a way to make an if statement that would be like if ip = 119.63.198., dont send me the email, otherwise... send away!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, this is what I've got so far:

<?php
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
mail ('[e-mail]', 'ip of visitor', $ip);
?>

[dagon]

why not use conventional logging software, even small websites can get thousands of visitors a day.

[bradgrafelman]

kp17 wrote:

I've noticed all of their IP's start with 119.63.198.*

Erm... please tell me you're joking and that you're not actually naïve enough to believe that the thousands of website spiders out there all live on the same class C subnet?

I agree with dagon; there are plenty of free website statistic/logging tools out there. Otherwise, find a list of common user agents and filter out those requests - that will hopefully get a majority of them.

[Weedpacket]

bradgrafelman wrote:

please tell me you're joking and that you're not actually naïve enough to believe that the thousands of website spiders out there all live on the same class C subnet?

I think that "spiders" plural was an accident, and the poster meant that all of the requests from the same spider are coming from the same subnet (registered out of Japan, though I've seen claims that it's a Chinese bot).