User's Ip Address

Yii 1.1 Tips, Snippets and Tutorials
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Retrieving User’s IP address


CHttpRequest::getUserHostAddress();
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This will give you highly inaccurate results for lots of users that are using VPN’s, company’s proxy/firewall and more… .

I’ve written back then an extension that includes a handy method that gives more accurate results back. If you’re interested, check out PcMaxmindGeoIp extension and in specific, the method getRemoteIpAddress() provided by it.