filtering an ip address

[rlm51]

I have a hit counter on my website that I wrote. I would like to filter out the ip address for our store to keep it from polluting a true record of outside hits. Is there a PHP or MYSQL system variable that records the ip address of the user so I could say something like:

<?PHP
if (ip_address == 'my_address') {
   $hits = $row_hits['hits'];
} else {
   $hits = ($count+1);
}
mysql_query("UPDATE tbl_count SET hits='$hits'");
?>

Thanks for any help

Robert

[ak1dnar]

Are you looking for something like in this article?
http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/php_ip.php

[rlm51]

I did a little research and found:
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

So I wrote it as:

$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$today = date('D');     
  if ($ip == 'my_address') {
    $hits = $row_hits[$today];
  } else {
    $count = $row_hits[$today];
    $hits = ($count+1);
  }

Thanks for your efforts.

See you all next time ...

Robert

[ak1dnar]

I did a little research and found:
$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

So I wrote it as:

$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$today = date('D');
if ($ip == 'my_address') {
$hits = $row_hits[$today];
} else {
$count = $row_hits[$today];
$hits = ($count+1);
}

Thanks for your efforts.

See you all next time ...

Robert

And thank you so much for sharing the solution with us.