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    Hello,

    For legal reasons, the government asked us to keep a record of the IP address and host name of our contributors in order to help trace payment history.

    Thus, we created two additional custom fields (one for the IP and one for the host name) that we have added to the custom profile associated with our contribution page.

    We'd like, now that these two fields be pre-filled (and, if possible, non-editable by the user), with the users correspondent data.

    I assume that these informations will have to be collected through these two queries:

<?php
if ($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] != ""){
     // for proxy
     $IP = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
}else{
     // for normal user
     $IP = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"];
}
?>

<?php
if ($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"] != ""){
     // for proxy
     $host = @gethostbyaddr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]);
}else{
     // for normal user
     $host = @gethostbyaddr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["REMOTE_ADDR"]);
}
?>

    How can I then link <?php echo $IP; ?> and <?php echo $host; ?> to « value =" " » of my two <input> fields? In addition, how can we make sure that these two fields are not editable (however they can be visible to public users or not)?

    Thank you in advance for your help ...