Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 10/04/47 11:09

you can't get the mac-address from a remote (client) computer via PHP
because PHP is server-sided (server). The mac-address isn't part of any
sort of standard header the browser sends, thus the server will never
see it. And if the server can't see it, then PHP can't see it either.
The only way to get it would be to run a local script which would pick
it up, and send it over. This however would require something like a
JAVA applet / application. The mac address is usually hidden away quite
well so people can't get it and start pretending to be someone else.
Although the idea is good, it most likely will not be possible
(relativly easily)

- tul

Lancer Emotion 16 wrote:
> But think that not everbody has a computer in his house,especially in
> 3rd world countries. Here in Peru and in another countries from
> Sudamerica,lot of people play this mmorpgs,like Knigths Online,WoW or
> Mu,in lan houses. If you ban the pc, none of the users who will play
> at this computer will be able to do it.
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:52:02 -0800, Tyler Replogle <dbnm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hey,
>>
>>I've been on this mailing list for quite a while, but i think this is my
>>first question. I'm not sure though.
>>
>>Well here goes.
>>
>>I'm working at this site that has an MMORPG, a big online game, and we have
>>this ban script. it bans the ip for the user and the user acount for an
>>amount of time. This doesn't seem to be doing its job because people just
>>change there ip and make a new user.
>>
>>I know there isn't any full way to ban some one from a site, but i've been
>>think and getting the mac id of a computer would work a lot better then ip.
>>I'm not sure how to get teh mac id of a computer though. If any of you know
>>how to can you please tell me. It doesn't just have to be with use php we
>>own the server can we can installl other apps, but many others are on the
>>server anyways.
>>
>>So how do i get the mac id of a user that is going on to my server?
>>
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