How to Get the Client's Ip Address in a PHP Webservice

How can I get the client IP using PHP?

If you are making a request from the machine where the server is running, then $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] will obviously contain your own IP address, which is 192.168.0.1

Get client IP address via third party web service

Checking your linked site, you may include a script tag passing a ?var=desiredVarName parameter which will be set as a global variable containing the IP address:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://l2.io/ip.js?var=myip"></script>
                                                      <!-- ^^^^ -->
<script>alert(myip);</script>

Demo

I believe I don't have to say that this can be easily spoofed (through either use of proxies or spoofed request headers), but it is worth noting in any case.

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HTTPS support

In case your page is served using the https protocol, most browsers will block content in the same page served using the http protocol (that includes scripts and images), so the options are rather limited. If you have < 5k hits/day, the Smart IP API can be used. For instance:

<script>
var myip;
function ip_callback(o) {
    myip = o.host;
}
</script>
<script src="https://smart-ip.net/geoip-json?callback=ip_callback"></script>
<script>alert(myip);</script>

Demo

Edit: Apparently, this https service's certificate has expired so the user would have to add an exception manually. Open its API directly to check the certificate state: https://smart-ip.net/geoip-json

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With back-end logic

The most resilient and simple way, in case you have back-end server logic, would be to simply output the requester's IP inside a <script> tag, this way you don't need to rely on external resources. For example:

PHP:

<script>var myip = '<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?>';</script>

There's also a more sturdy PHP solution (accounting for headers that are sometimes set by proxies) in this related answer.

C#:

<script>var myip = '<%= Request.UserHostAddress %>';</script>

How can I query the IP address of subscribers?

function get_client_ip() 
 {
      $ipaddress = '';
      if (getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP');
      else if(getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR');
      else if(getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED');
      else if(getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR');
      else if(getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED');
      else if(getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'))
          $ipaddress = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
      else
          $ipaddress = 'UNKNOWN';

      return $ipaddress; 
 }

Source

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