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Oct 19.2004

Hello, I hope you can help please.

We have a lot of forms on our site, and we use a PHP mailer which validates the input, assigns unique ID’s and ultimately should everything pass validation, a mail is sent using PHP’s mail() function.

Is there a way however we can limit how many submissions are sent from each IP? As there is more than one mailer script I wondered if there was some check we could do to see if an IP has already used the mail() function say twice, and if so alert them a message saying to try later…

Is that possible?

Thanks.

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@MstrBobOct 19.2004 — Create a database table, store IP, number of times used the mail function, and the time&date of last using the function. Then, simple if/else
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@DanUKauthorOct 20.2004 — Hi there.

Thank you for your post.

Unfortunately we cannot use a database for it.

Could it be achieved with flatfile?

The only concern I have with that is the size that file could get to.

Hmmm... hard one. ?

Thanks.
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@MstrBobOct 20.2004 — Hmm... flatfile, eh? I suppose you could create it flatfile. You could use an xml file, and use it as a sort of pseudo-database. You could have an <ip> tag, <date> tag and all, no?
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