rko_tailor - 2003-04-30

I was looking around for an address book php script to turn into an IP management phone book providing a point of contact per IP address.  I can't find any address book php scripts that aren't cheezy, buggy, or worthwhile to hack.

phpip seems to have the same fields and goals of an address book, but I wondered if there was an easier or better way to enter user point of contact information by IP address.

A while ago, I hacked an address php script to steal the user's IP address from the web environment variables passed to the web server.  I recorded this IP as part of the user's name, phone, address, etc.  This way, users wouldn't have to know about their IP#.

You might be interested to look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/iphawk/ in IP management.  It's an inactive project, but useful.  They were only concerned about IP space rather than assigning points of contact for each IP address.  I didn't want to write an address/phone book php script just to include a user's IP.

The idea was to have all the users of the organization go to a website http://somewhere.com/phonebook/ and enter their POC information themselves.  I would maybe use their IP (stolen from their session variable) as a key in the index tables.