Question

I need to limit the access to a PHP web page for a user identified by IP address only 5 times a day.

I have done this funcionality with sessions, but in the requirements I have to that with IP Adresses abd not with sessions.

Any idea on the simplest method to do that?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

First, create a table with columns such as:

|-----------------------------------|
| IP varchar(15) | Views tinyint(1) |
|-----------------------------------|

Then on each view either insert the IP (if its not already in the database) or increment views by 1. If views = 5 then kill the page and don’t allow the user to visit.

You can then run a cron each night at 00:00 that deletes all data in the table (see: truncate).