I found it to be really useful in iPanel and WHMCS when you can ban certain IPs (mostly from open proxies and data centers or "throw-away" e-mails). I already have implimented this in my own installation but it might be useful to provide as a standard feature since edits to core files isn't good for updates and there is no real plugin system in place.
Ban IPs from THT itself or like cPanel's IP blocker?
From THT itself. I find it better this way because it prevents them from registering but it doesn't prevent them from viewing/clicking ads.
Like from THT add their IP to the cPanel deny list. That would be sweet.
No not at all. The cPanel deny list is not a good idea IMO because once you get about 500 IPs it can really slow down your site as apposed to having a PHP check the IP one 1 page.
I am having trouble integrating this into the Admin area. I suck at arrays.
Here's what I have so far:
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(04-06-2010 09:23 AM)KuJoe Wrote: [ -> ]I am having trouble integrating this into the Admin area. I suck at arrays.
Here's what I have so far:
Looks good but what exactly is the problem? Also if you are going to do this it might be helpful to ban users by an entire network portion. IE: if the user was 127.0.0.1 then ban all users at 127.0.0.* or something similar.
I had thought of that, I will look into allowing wildcards.