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By: Futurosity » Blog Archive » Dashboard Widget: ShortStat Widget

Futurosity » Blog Archive » Dashboard Widget: ShortStat Widget — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:16:27 +0000

[...] To block your own IP address, you’ll need to make a few changes to your configuration.php and inc.stats.php files (thanks to John Nunemaker). [...]

By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:55:38 +0000

Hey, thanks very much for this. I couldn’t figure out how to block my IP. Thanks for the help! And great site, BTW.

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Sun, 22 May 2005 22:45:47 +0000

Blocking the ip address is actually really simple. First, in the configuration file add an array of ip addresses to exclude:
$exclude = array(Ã¢â‚¬â„¢1.1.1.1Ã¢â‚¬Â², Ã¢â‚¬Ëœ1.1.1.2Ã¢â‚¬Â²); // etc, etcÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

Then in the inc.stats.php file just wrap an if statement around the mysql_query function:
if ( !in_array($ip, $exclude) ){ @mysql_query($query); }
Now the stat line will only be inserted into the database if the ip address is not in your array of ipÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s.

By: David Wehrs

David Wehrs — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:03:00 +0000

Hey great tips on the mySQL code! I’d love to know how you block your own IP address?

By: Jehiah

Jehiah — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:47:26 +0000

Glad you like the pathstats plugin… just be carefull, it’s addicting ;-)