> I want to base the database a PHP script uses on the IP address of the
> server running the script. What is the fastest way to get the IP
> address of
> the server from a script? I could use environment variables but they are
> unreliable (when run from cron for example, the environment
> doesn't have all
> the variables you would expect). I wrote the following function based on a
> Perl firewall script that uses ifconfig, but it has too much overhead to
> call every time I connect to the database. All I really want to
> do is add a
> conf variable to php.ini that gets read at startup and is cached from then
> on. Any ideas?
Why not test for the enviromental var, if its not there then call your
function, if it is use it?
James
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