getting the user's (internet, not local network) IP address

[Jeff Massung]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Josh Mellicker <josh at dvcreators.net> wrote:
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> To get the user's (internet, not local network) IP address, put a text file
> on your server with this code:
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> <?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>
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This still doesn't [fully] work. While not the local IP address, you'd still
have to perform NAT traversal in order to do any actual communication with
the client machine (read: anything useful).  At best, with this IP address
you can find out the general county/city the client machine is located in.

Jeff M.