Evening all, just a general opinion needed here.
I have a website that people visit, now I want to make sure that they can only access once a day.
What I plan to do is write their IP address to either a flat file or MySQL database so if they come back, the IP is checked to see if its in the database / file already - if it is they get redirected to a 'Try again tomorrow' page else they can access the page.
At a guess the page is visited by between 300 - 700 people so my question would a flat file or database be better to implement?
The database would involve accessing / searching / inserting data whereas the text file would be write toand read into an array.
I am leaning towards the flat file just because I am lazy but wondered what you guys would do.
Cheers
I have a website that people visit, now I want to make sure that they can only access once a day.
What I plan to do is write their IP address to either a flat file or MySQL database so if they come back, the IP is checked to see if its in the database / file already - if it is they get redirected to a 'Try again tomorrow' page else they can access the page.
At a guess the page is visited by between 300 - 700 people so my question would a flat file or database be better to implement?
The database would involve accessing / searching / inserting data whereas the text file would be write toand read into an array.
I am leaning towards the flat file just because I am lazy but wondered what you guys would do.
Cheers
