Finding IP address of user

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audiodef
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Finding IP address of user

Post by audiodef » Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:32 pm

How can I find the IP address of a registered user? I want to track down a suspicious bit of activity on a web site I run of a very sensitive nature.
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Re: Finding IP address of user

Post by toivo » Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:23 am

You need a user plugin which is triggered by the onUserLogin event: http://docs.joomla.org/Plugin/Events/User#onLoginUser. This plugin can record the value of the server variable $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to a text file or a database table.

On the other hand, there are extensions which track the IP address of the users: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... s/visitors
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Re: Finding IP address of user

Post by audiodef » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:30 am

Thanks! :)
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