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Do you have registered users who can search or can everybody search who visits the website?<br />
In the last case you'd best track the seaches bij IP-address. Register the searches in a database.
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Do you have registered users who can search or can everybody search who visits the website?
In the last case you'd best track the seaches bij IP-address. Register the searches in a database.

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my apologies for not adding this information!<br />
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no the feature will be available to all users i.e. there are no registered users.
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my apologies for not adding this information!

no the feature will be available to all users i.e. there are no registered users.

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Then probably the check on IP-address will be sufficient. It probably doesn't matter how many people download from the same computer, they can't work on it at the same time.<br />
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] gives you the IP-address, save this in the database with a download counter
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Then probably the check on IP-address will be sufficient. It probably doesn't matter how many people download from the same computer, they can't work on it at the same time.
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] gives you the IP-address, save this in the database with a download counter

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ok so I would write the ip address to a table and have an autoincrement field to keep track of the number of searches.<br />
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what do you think would be best approach for checking the number of searches over a fixed period of time?
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ok so I would write the ip address to a table and have an autoincrement field to keep track of the number of searches.

what do you think would be best approach for checking the number of searches over a fixed period of time?

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hi,<br />
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we are adding a php lookup/search feature on our website (lamp). &nbsp;This feature searches against a single table in a mysql database.<br />
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What methods can I use to limit the number of searches performed by users over a period of time e.g. 10mins? &nbsp;<br />
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thanks!
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hi,

we are adding a php lookup/search feature on our website (lamp).  This feature searches against a single table in a mysql database.

What methods can I use to limit the number of searches performed by users over a period of time e.g. 10mins?  

thanks!

Controlling number of user searches

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