Hi,
Another way to restrict them to one vote is to set a cookie. Although not
completely full-proof, its a method I've seen a lot of them use.
-Dan Joseph
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CPT John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: Ryan A; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] 3 mins of your time please...logic problem
>
>
> From: "Ryan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Basically trying to limit the "vote" to just 1 per person, first am
> checking
> > if the the person with username has voted, if that comes back as false
> then
> > am checking his ip (because i dont know if the person changed his
> username
> > and is trying to vote again) now its allowing me to vote twice
> and on the
> > third time its restricting me.
>
> Just get rid of the check for IP address. All you're going to do
> is restrict
> a bunch of people that actually haven't voted just because they have the
> same IP address as someone else. Some ISPs have it so that all
> requests look
> like they are coming from the same IP address while it's actually
> different
> people.
>
> If your "poll" is really so important that you need to limit people from
> voting twice, then make them log in and only allow one vote per username.
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
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