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how to get a unique visitor registration in the database


BrainPill

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I am working on a visitor counter. One way of storing the visitors in the database table is by getting the ip number. 

But I am not sure whether it is the right solution or not. I wonder if it is possible for a visitor to hide an ipnumber in a way that there is no ipnumber at all.

 

Is that possible?

 

What would you recommend to do to get a quite (real) unique visitor registration without users needing the possibilty to log in?  

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You can compare IPs, sure.

http://itman.in/en/how-to-get-client-ip-address-in-php/

Alternatively, you can use Cookies

http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

and use $_COOKIE, to check if its there.

 

If you were looking for something like 'visits' you could use sessions.

 

Does that work for you?

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