How can I detect if the user is on localhost in PHP?
In other words, how can I tell if the person using my web application is on the server it resides on? If I remember correctly, PHPMyAdmin does something like this for security reasons.
You can also use $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] for which IP address of the client requesting is given by the web server.
$whitelist = array(
'127.0.0.1',
'::1'
);
if(!in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $whitelist)){
// not valid
}
As a complement, as a function...
function isLocalhost($whitelist = ['127.0.0.1', '::1']) {
return in_array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $whitelist);
}