Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-21 Thread Per Jessen
Nathan Rixham wrote: it's all a bit pointless, the only way to ensure only one vote per person is to get take and test a dns sample from each user. anything else is going to be flawed Not at all - you issue voting-rights based on user identity. Works very well in many places. Here in

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-21 Thread tedd
At 1:19 PM +0100 2/21/09, Per Jessen wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: it's all a bit pointless, the only way to ensure only one vote per person is to get take and test a dns sample from each user. anything else is going to be flawed Not at all - you issue voting-rights based on user identity.

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-21 Thread Per Jessen
tedd wrote: [agree with all of the above] So in Switzerland if each of you have a ID card, then the problem is solved as descried above. However, if there is no ID card, then other methods must be considered. It's not the ID-card as such (it's your ability to prove your own identity), but

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-20 Thread Nathan Rixham
Martin Zvarík wrote: Ashley Sheridan napsal(a): On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:34 +0100, Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote:

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
Nathan Rixham wrote: it's all a bit pointless, the only way to ensure only one vote per person is to get take and test a dns sample from each user. anything else is going to be flawed Hey now, what do you have against us clones? ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-20 Thread Nathan Rixham
Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: it's all a bit pointless, the only way to ensure only one vote per person is to get take and test a dns sample from each user. anything else is going to be flawed Hey now, what do you have against us clones? ;) and nobody noticed I said

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-20 Thread tedd
At 11:09 PM + 2/20/09, Nathan Rixham wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: Nathan Rixham wrote: it's all a bit pointless, the only way to ensure only one vote per person is to get take and test a dns sample from each user. anything else is going to be flawed Hey now, what do you have

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread tedd
At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because it's a waste of my time... if you want me to vote you do everything you can to make it as pleasant as possible -- certainly that

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because it's a waste of my time... if you want me to vote you do everything you can to make it as pleasant as possible --

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread tedd
At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because it's a waste of my time... if you want me to vote you do

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because it's a waste of my time... if you want me to vote

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread tedd
At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Chris
Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Chris
Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a poll where you

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 1:49 AM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: Guys, I have not seen a

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:34 +0100, Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:10 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Zvarík
Ashley Sheridan napsal(a): On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:34 +0100, Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: Chris napsal(a): Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd napsal(a): At 5:28 PM +0100 2/19/09, Martin Zvarík wrote: tedd

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread tedd
At 5:47 AM +0200 2/18/09, Ian wrote: Anyone had to deal with this in the past and does anyone have any suggestions/ideas as to how I could better this setup? Many thanks in advance, Ian Ian: As other people have said, using IP's are not really a good solution. If it was me, I would ask the

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 5:47 AM +0200 2/18/09, Ian wrote: Anyone had to deal with this in the past and does anyone have any suggestions/ideas as to how I could better this setup? Many thanks in advance, Ian Ian: As other people have said,

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread tedd
At 1:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Granted this is an involved method, but email addresses are unique and thus ensures one vote per email address. E-mail addresses are (somewhat unique -- not getting into

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Granted this is an involved method, but email addresses are unique and thus ensures one vote per

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:54 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: Granted this is an involved method, but

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread tedd
At 3:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: You're missing my point. Yes, e-mail addresses are unique delivery points. They can not, however, uniquely identify one and only one person -- which is what one would need in the OP's situation. Andrew Andrew: No -- I did not miss you point,

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: At 3:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote: You're missing my point. Yes, e-mail addresses are unique delivery points. They can not, however, uniquely identify one and only one person -- which is what one would need in

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Zvarík
Guys, I have not seen a poll where you need to input your email address - and if I would I would not vote - because it's a waste of my time... if you want me to vote you do everything you can to make it as pleasant as possible -- certainly that isn't requirement of an email validation.

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-17 Thread Chris
Ian wrote: Hi, I am busy building an application that requires one time voting and to get around the user deleting a cookie that I set im keeping a hash on my side which I then try match before allowing anything. I assume this is backed by a db of some sort. $query = update user set

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-17 Thread Ian
Hi, Yep it is backed by DB and i do record when they vote - but its still flawed in how to track unique users :) Thanks though - will continue to look further. Cheers On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chris dmag...@gmail.com wrote: Ian wrote: Hi, I am busy building an application that

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-17 Thread Chris
Ian wrote: Hi, Yep it is backed by DB and i do record when they vote - but its still flawed in how to track unique users :) Thanks though - will continue to look further. Do you have to log in to vote? How are you stopping people from signing up multiple times? -- Postgresql php

Re: [PHP] Unique User Hashes

2009-02-17 Thread Ian
We dont have registration - its a once off vote anonymously using the hash in the original email. We dont want registration otherwise it would be much easier - but this was the best way I could think of without user registration :/ On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Chris dmag...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: [PHP] Unique user?

2005-08-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Is there any way of doing this: 1. User may vote 1-10 on a joke on a site X. 2. Same User may NOT vote again dependent of the computer... I know this works if I check IP-adress, but because some users doesn't have a fixed ip-adress... it won't work correct. Thought of getting a

Re: [PHP] Unique user?

2005-08-19 Thread Jason Barnett
I'm going to agree with Jay... most users are lazy enough that if you just require them to have a user account then that will suffice. Since this is only for a joke site that would be my suggestion as well. However, if you really, really wanted to identify remote *computers* then you can try