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Hi
Im having a problem that appears to be the . in the ipaddress when retrieved using {ip_address} global variable.

I have 2 variables that look identical to the eye:
(125.3.114.233) and
(125.3.114.233)

the first comes from the database and the second is from the {ip_address} global variable.

If i try to remove the dots using php i get
(1253114233) and
(125.3.114.233)

Which leads me to believe that the dots are somehow different.  I would like to know how they are different.

{exp:query sql="SELECT field_id_40 AS customers, t.entry_id, t.ip_address as ip FROM ee_weblog_titles AS t, ee_weblog_data AS d WHERE t.entry_id = d.entry_id AND t.weblog_id = d.weblog_id AND t.status ='Pending' AND t.weblog_id='8' AND t.title LIKE 'O;OKING:%' order by t.entry_id DESC limit 0,1"}
e:{entry_id}

c:{customers}

i:{ip}
<?php
$ipAddress = "{ip}";
$currentIP = "{ip_address}";

print "ipaddress:$ipAddress
";
print "currentipaddress:$currentIP
";

$a = trim($ipAddress);
$A = str_replace(".", "", $a);
$b = trim($currentIP);
$B = str_replace(".", "", $b);

if($A==$B){
 echo "The IP's match";
 }else{
 echo "No Ip match: ($A): ($B)";
 }
?>
{/exp:query}

im getting output like this
ipaddress:125.3.114.233
currentipaddress:125.3.114.233
No Ip match: (125.3.114.233): (125.3.114.233)

when i add the str_replace to remove the dots . and try to just compare the numbers i am unable to remove them from the ipaddress generated using the {ip_address} global variable.

They look like normal dots but i cant get the ip from the database to match the current ip.

Know of any reason this might be happening?

I have tried copying the output dots and substituting them in the str_replace function but that did not fix things.

Thanks

The global variable is not parsed until the very end of template parsing, so your PHP is actually seeing {ip_address}, literally.  You can demonstrate this by making sure you exit the script after printing the variables:

$ipAddress = "{ip}";
$currentIP = "{ip_address}";

print "ipaddress:$ipAddress
";
print "currentipaddress:$currentIP
";
exit;

Incidentally, to get the current IP address you can just use the Input class:

global $IN;
echo $IN->IP;

Champion!

It never occured to me that it was still the placeholder that i was comparing.  I Thought it was an encoding problem.

Thank you very much. Problem Fixed.