How to get the IP address of the author post in wordpress

Question

I have installed an iThemes security plugin on my wordpress website in order to secure my site. Also, I have installed a WP Statistics in order to view the IP addresses of the visitors. But, this plugin does not record the IP address of an author who created a post. I've been searching on the web for a PHP script or a SQL query to get the said IP address.

Does anybody know how to get the IP address of an author using PHP script or SQL query?

Answer 1

function get_client_ip() {
    $ipaddress = '';
    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED'];
    else if(isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']))
        $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    else
        $ipaddress = 'UNKNOWN';
    return $ipaddress;
}

This would be helpful, you just need to insert this into posting script and then just push it to base like normal variable.