Re: [PHP] Limiting logins

2010-06-07 Thread Richard Quadling
On 7 June 2010 04:20, Skip Evans wrote: > Hey Ash & all, > > Thanks for that detailed explanation. > > This is a lot of what I was thinking. Cookies can get deleted, etc, and all > the other things that can toss wrenches into this. > > To clarify, they want to limit a single user to two machines m

Re: [PHP] Limiting logins

2010-06-06 Thread Skip Evans
Hey Ash & all, Thanks for that detailed explanation. This is a lot of what I was thinking. Cookies can get deleted, etc, and all the other things that can toss wrenches into this. To clarify, they want to limit a single user to two machines max, but only one at a time. I'm going to have to

Re: [PHP] Limiting logins

2010-06-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:31:22PM -0500, Skip Evans wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm familiar with setting cookies in PHP and using REMOTE_ADDR > to get a visitor's IP address (or that of their gateway), but > not quite sure how to implement a robust mechanism that would > limit a user to logging in fro

Re: [PHP] Limiting logins

2010-06-06 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 20:31 -0500, Skip Evans wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm familiar with setting cookies in PHP and using REMOTE_ADDR > to get a visitor's IP address (or that of their gateway), but > not quite sure how to implement a robust mechanism that would > limit a user to logging in from only

[PHP] Limiting logins

2010-06-06 Thread Skip Evans
Hey all, I'm familiar with setting cookies in PHP and using REMOTE_ADDR to get a visitor's IP address (or that of their gateway), but not quite sure how to implement a robust mechanism that would limit a user to logging in from only two different machines, a requirement this client has on the pro