Map IP to another creative unique identifier

[perlhelp]

I would like to create a system where people can post messages without registering. Rather than showing their IP address to identify which message belongs to a unique person, I would like to somehow map it to a creative/non-technical solution. For example, I think I saw somewhere someone doing it to colored boxes. So when I would post a message, in the left column would be 2 different colored boxes and in the right column would be my message. The next person posting from a different IP would have different colors. Can anyone think of any other ideas to solve a problem like this or know of any premade PHP code that might do this for colors or equitable solutions?

[jx2]

I would like to create a system where people can post messages without registering. Rather than showing their IP address to identify which message belongs to a unique person, I would like to somehow map it to a creative/non-technical solution. For example, I think I saw somewhere someone doing it to colored boxes. So when I would post a message, in the left column would be 2 different colored boxes and in the right column would be my message. The next person posting from a different IP would have different colors. Can anyone think of any other ideas to solve a problem like this or know of any premade PHP code that might do this for colors or equitable solutions?

they dont have to register but they can type theirs names register name for a session and job done - for those who wont type name in use something like : "anonymous1 2" ; of course for each person another number

btw. IP isnt realy good idea i thing you should try cookies or sessions for that kind of jobs

premade code/? no no no :-) try do it on your own personaly i dont like to use others ppl scripts cose you can never be sure abot them and debaging or changing them to my needs usualy takes longer ten typing new code

good luck

jx2

[Atli]

Hi.

Have you considered allowing your posters to add a name to their posts?

Alternatively you could somehow interpret their IP addresses into colors.
For example, each IP address is represented by four 8bit integers (0-255), which is incidentally the exact same method used to store 32bit ARGB colors...
Granted, you may want to leave out the alpha byte there.

I recommend that you take a look at the following functions to implement it:
imagecreatetrue color
imagefilledrect angle
imagecoloralloc ate

(Check out imagefilledelli pse for a code example, very similar to the rectangle function)

[nothing1]

You can use the ip by creating an array of four then you have two options

1. Create colored DIV: using the array but getting rid of one you can put them back together and create different colors
ex.
128.66.0.175 = #336600

[PHP]$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ip_numbers = explode('.', $ip);
if ($ip_numbers[0] <= 150){
$color = '33';
}else{
$color = '66';}
if ($ip_numbers[1] <= 150){
$color2 = '33';
}else{
$color2 = 'FF';}
if ($ip_numbers[3] <= 150){
$color3 = 'CC';
}else{
$color3 = '00';}[/PHP]

USE
[HTML]<DIV class="user" style="backgrou nd-color: #<?php echo $color.$color2. $color3 ;?>" ></DIV>[/HTML]
NOTE: You can make it more varied by adding more if statements. not tested

2. Call an image: you can also add up the numbers and make if statements to create a request for an image.

[PHP]$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ip_numbers = explode('.', $ip);
$total = sum($ip_numbers );
if ($total <= 200){
$img = 'http://mysite.com/images/greenbox.gif';
}elseif($total <= 300 ){
$img = 'http://mysite.com/images/bluebox.gif';
}elseif($total <=400){
$img = 'http://mysite.com/images/redbox.gif';
} else{
$img = 'http://mysite.com/images/graybox.gif';
}
[/PHP]
NOTE: This one too you can add more IF statements to get more variety.not tested

USE
[HTML]<img src="<?php echo $img ?>" />[/HTML]

I know there are some errors in there but you should get the picture and be able to fix it.