Comments on: Block IP address with PHP

By: Merlin59

Merlin59 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:08:03 +0000

Wolf gives excellent advice and I know that you will all love reading what he has to say to you! ,

By: Vinothbabu

Vinothbabu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:28:46 +0000

Why dont you use .htaccess to block a domain. Its much better practice.

By: mateo

mateo — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:53:00 +0000

What about blocking certain domains instead of IP or IP ranges? This would be very helpful to me. I appreciate any help.

Thanks
Mateo

By: Vinothbabu

Vinothbabu — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:19:18 +0000

Hi, porl…. so you can possibly look into this code below…

< ?php
function ipCheck($match_ip, $ip_array) {
We have to make sure that its an array, before we go with foreach.
if (is_array($ip_array)) {
// loop through ip array
foreach ($ip_array as $ip_add) {
// we are testing if there is a match
if (strpos($match_ip, $ip_add)===0) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
$ban_array = array(
'216.47.55.141',
'72.47.147',
'74.171',
'58'
);
if (ipCheck($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $ban_array)) {
echo "Your message here.";
exit;
}
?>

By: porl

porl — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:37:36 +0000

IP’s for countries are given in a group of ranges, that would therefore be something like:

215.222.777.0 to 215.222.999.0

and anything in that range is banned (inclusive of start and end figure.
the ability to do this large scale for social sites etc to block out africa etc…
and also singly as well. could be a text file or a mysql database.

By: Vinothbabu

Vinothbabu — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:19:25 +0000

Porl…

What type of range would you like to block… now it may come in handy at rare occation.

By: Porl

Porl — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:08:01 +0000

would be very handy if it offered a range of from and to (inclusive).
Can this be done and how?

Many thanks

Porl

By: Honour Chick

Honour Chick — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:05:13 +0000

very useful info thanks