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Asked: 2026-05-19T23:22:21+00:00

I’m looking to set up a whistleblowing/anonymous tip website, but I’ve run into some

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I’m looking to set up a whistleblowing/anonymous tip website, but I’ve run into some problems. The basic idea is that you navigate to a splash page, fill in a few fields (name and location optionally, and then the message), then fire it off. At that point the message gets sent to a specific email inbox so that our team can look at it.

I’ve done a bit of research and PHP seems like my best bet, but I would also like to be able to log IP addresses for every message (or, more ideally, append them to the email before it is sent) so that I can be sure I’m not getting trolled or spammed. Can anyone point me in the right direction with this? I’m kind of a PHP noob, but willing to learn.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The remote IP address will be available within your php script using the super global $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]. You can append that to your mail.

    Just to mention: If you log the ip address of the sender, you kind of miss something important if you want the sender to be ANONYMOUS. Because if you log the ip, then this is not really the case anymore.

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