Free MOD for IP address

[esm]

here is a free MOD for the monthly contest. It adds the IP address as a custom field and captures the ip address of whoever is submitting the link during the add link process by a user

Go to the Admin Control Panel and click the Custom Field hyperlink in the Links section.

For the Field name, enter ip_address

For the Text field, enter IP Address

For the Type field, select the Text option from the drop down list

for the Required and Searchable options, click No for both. Actually, you can select whatever suits you needs for either of these. You could select Yes for the Required field but it really should make no difference for a user submitting a link. If you add the link as the admin, then you would need to add an IP during the add process.

For the Permission field, select the Admin only option from the drop down list

Click the Add Field button to save the custom field



Edit the add_form.html file.

You do not need to change which option (Show or Hide) you are using for <%$custom_field_form%>.

at the bottom of the page, enter the following just above the </form> tag

<input type="hidden" name="ip_address" value="<%$ip_address%>" />

it should look like the following

<input type="hidden" name="ip_address" value="<%$ip_address%>" />
</form> 

Edit the add.php file.
Change the call to DisplayTemplate at about line 160 in the function ShowFormAddUrl as follows:

if (@getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"))
{
$ip_address = @getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
} else {
$ip_address = @getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");
}
DisplayTemplate($theme_path . "add_form.html","\$ip_address,\$error_msg,\$title,\$url,\$description,\$category ,\$contact_name,\$email,\$cat,\$add_cat1,\$add_cat 2,\$keywords,\$reciprocal_url,\$custom_field_form, \$sponsored_listing_period,\$premium_listing_perio d,\$basic_listing_price,\$currency_symbol,\$availa ble_payment_systems"

Save your changes.

All done.



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[echo@]

Love it, nice one

[esm]

or you could add something like the following after the </form>

<div style="text-align:center">We have recorded the following
IP Address:<%$ip_address%></div>

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[echo@]

once again thanks, nice and easy explaination .

I did notice a typo "add_form.php" should be "add_form.html"

Works great, will probally add the field to the detail_link.html as "Submitted by IP" etc.

Thanks!

[seveneth]

To make it better, perhaps we'll need to exclude this custom field in "block_sort_links" so it doesn't show in browse listing page.

[esm]

To make it better, perhaps we'll need to exclude this custom field in "block_sort_links" so it doesn't show in browse listing page.

I didn't look at it what you were referring to but the problem I have is that the field is designated as "Admin only" so that means that it should not appear anywhere except to the admin and probably only in the admin area screens.

If it appears elsewhere, maybe a fix by the developer...



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[seveneth]

Well, I have to agree on this one
I think it can be considered as a bug.