IP Address in Order

[emanresu]

We'd like to capture the customers IP address on every order as this can help us verify some of the more obscure requests we get.

 

Is there a quick way of adding this to orders.php?

[emanresu]

What we are trying to do is to use the IP address as a method of reducing Credit Card fraud. Found the IP address in whos_online (is this the only source?) and want to use this to create a query as follows:

 

$query = "http://maxmind.com:8010/a?l=" . $license_key . "&i=" . $ipaddress;

$url = parse_url($query);

$host = $url["host"];

$path = $url["path"] . "?" . $url["query"];

$timeout = 1;

$fp = fsockopen ($host, 8010, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

if ($fp) {

  fputs ($fp, "GET $path HTTP/1.0\nHost: " . $host . "\n\n");

  while (!feof($fp)) {

    $buf .= fgets($fp, 128);

  }

  $lines = split("\n", $buf);

  $country = $lines[count($lines)-1];

  fclose($fp);

} else {

  # enter error handing code here

}

echo $country;

 

This will allow us to query Maxmind to get their Fraud Rating.

 

If your are interested in reducing Credit card fraud, how about some help.

[Guest]

this is done in most of the payment modules, and the cc company gets this (at least on the ones i use) as i get the customer info of who ordered and the ip address submitted from. i am using Linda's SEC, which displayes the customer ip address in the footer, as well as in the admin section of whos online.

[emanresu]

Thanks. I'll check it out