PHP : Get client IP address
Knowing who is accessing your web server can be useful for tracking a user's activity. In this tutorial, we will learn how to get client IP address with PHP.
In a straight forward manner, this should be get your the IP address of a client
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']
However, sometimes the user access your web server via a proxy or load balancer ( such as in cloud hosting, behind a LAN, etc ) and the above code will give you the IP address of the proxy or load balancer.
You need to get the HTTP Request header information "X-Forwarded-For (XFF)" in order to get the real IP address of the client. To do that you can use
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']
and
$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']
The PHP code snippet below should do the job :
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {
$client_ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
} elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {
$client_ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
} else {
$client_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}
Hope this simple tutorial can be useful to you.
By Adam Ng
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