Need to find out more info about users

[e_00_3]

Hi,

I have been learning to build websites for a while now and would like to move forward onto some more sophisticated stuff. FOr example, info on the users (or their computers) and tracking, etc. Especially, users information.

Is there anyway, I oculd find out where do users locate base ont their IP and informaiton on users computers?

Thanks very much,

Zebeth

[Anon]

Hi,

I too have been researching on something similar and here's what I've found :
- Using environment variables, you can find out things like user ip, hostname, referring link. See environment variables for more on this.
- from the hostname/ip it is possible to judge the user's country. Either thru domain extn (.in, .uk etc) or thru querying the internic server. But again not 100% foolproof
- Javascript gives u things like screen resolution, history etc.
- Perl has a module wherein if referring page is a search engine, you can find out the keywords that were used for the search etc.

If there's anything else that I can help on, let me know.

Regards

Nilesh

[e_00_3]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.
However, do you know how could we find out where the person's from from their IP address? Could it be done through PHP coding and how? Also, would the result be the person's country or his/her ISP's country?

Also, how do you track users using the history properties in javascript?

Thanks again.

[Anon]

Hi,

As far as I understand the only way to find out country from ip address is querying the internic server. That would give you where that ip address is registered. But there are some limitations in that also. I have a nice document downloaded from the web on this. Send me your mail id at [e-mail] and I'll send you the article.

The history property is only useful if you want to know where all the user went prior coming to your page etc. Not sure whether this is useful but one of my clients wanted info like this, so I thought one could analyze something out of this.

Regards

Nilesh