Joomla Views

Ever wanted to add the senders IP address when submitting a message via the contact form?  Just use our one line code hack.

This is a simple way to add the contact form senders IP address to the message for easy tracking; this is especially useful when you get those contact form spam emails.

addendum:Joomla! copies over this file with each update, but the fix is the same; just apply the code below to /components/com_contact/controller.php and you are ready to go.

It is a source code hack, and it works in Joomla 1.5.8 through 1.5.15; and you might need to change it or re-apply it when Joomla! releases the next version. The line number has been updated for the latest Joomla release 1.5.15.

Always, backup the source file before changing.

in file: /components/com_contact/controller.php

change line 169 from:

   $body     = $prefix."\n".$name.' <'.$email.'>'."\r\n\r\n".stripslashes($body);

to:

   $body    = $prefix."\n".$name.' ('.getenv('REMOTE_ADDR').' - '.gethostbyaddr(getenv('REMOTE_ADDR')).')' ."\r\n\r\n".stripslashes($body);

 

This will give you an email looking like this:

This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/ from:
contact name (xxx.xx.xx.xxx - h169n2-gl-a-d5.ias.bredband.telia.com)

This is the message body.