I'm looking to set up开发者_如何学Go a whistleblowing/anonymous tip website, but I've run into some problems. The basic idea is that you navigate to a splash page, fill in a few fields (name and location optionally, and then the message), then fire it off. At that point the message gets sent to a specific email inbox so that our team can look at it.

I've done a bit of research and PHP seems like my best bet, but I would also like to be able to log IP addresses for every message (or, more ideally, append them to the email before it is sent) so that I can be sure I'm not getting trolled or spammed. Can anyone point me in the right direction with this? I'm kind of a PHP noob, but willing to learn.

Thanks!

The remote IP address will be available within your php script using the super global $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']. You can append that to your mail.

Just to mention: If you log the ip address of the sender, you kind of miss something important if you want the sender to be ANONYMOUS. Because if you log the ip, then this is not really the case anymore.

Problem

Spambots most of the times have a network of computers(hacked!) so blocking IP addresses most of the times does not work. Also I would like to point out the probably some legimate user who is not aware of the malware on his PC can't use your service because you are blocking his IP address. Otherwise CAPTCHA's were NOT necessary at all and Google, Yahoo! would not be using them at all because as you most likely know these images are hard to read sometimes.

Solution

You should just have a good spam filter(GMail's works very good) in place and use Akismet to detect spam-messages instead. They have very decent libraries in place so that you don't have to do any coding at all and it is going to work a lot better, then what you were about to implement.