Displaying IP Address

[grimmis]

I was wondering if anybody can help,

I have only just started using flash/dreamweaver....... I have made up a contact form in flash that posts to a CGI script. On the form itself I want to display the users IP address, this is to stop people abusing the form.

I have no problem using something like shtml to get the ip but I do not know how to pass that variable into flash or if there is an easier way just using action script itself

Thanks for the help in advance

Grimmis

[jeet]

Hi friend,

to get the ip use remote_addr and use with flash like below

make a variable in flash name IP

call the swf

filename.swf?IP=remote_addr

Try it , i hope it will help you!

regards
jeet

[Taff]

I'm afraid there are numerous reasons why that wouldn't work.

Firstly you would need to save to file to some PHP enabled webspace, once you've done that you need to save the document with the swf embedded into it as a .php doc.

The keyword jeet mentioned is correct although it needs to written in caps and have a dollar sign in front of it, like this $REMOTE_ADDR

To embed it into the document however it will not suffice to say filename.swf?IP=$REMOTE_ADDR
you need to tell it that that bit is php, output the resulting IP with an echo like such:

<OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="test" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="test.swf?IP=<?php echo $REMOTE_ADDR ?>"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="test.swf?IP=<?php $REMOTE_ADDR?>" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="test" ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Not the bold bits which are the only real pieces of information that will interest you.

Good Luck,
Taff

p.s. could I ask a silly question? What is SHTML? Ive never come across it before!