Is it possible to get remote IP address in a hidden field?

You can use these tags as is. They will not be shows in the form, but will show up in the email you receive after the visitor submits the form.

[_remote_ip]
[_user_agent]
[_url]
[_date]
[_time]
[_post_id]
[_post_name]
[_post_title]
[_post_url]
[_post_author]
[_post_author_email]
[_serial_number]

I have used them like this, in the “Email” tab.

Message:
[your-message]

Visitor information:
[_remote_ip]
[_user_agent]
[_date]
[_time]
[_post_url]

OT: remote ip is sending localhost ip what seems to be the problem to this?

By using

[_remote_ip]
[_user_agent]

You’ll get the IP number of the visitor and all the information. Example:

11.350.36.11
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9765.85.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.123 Safari/537.36

I find it easiest to put these tags into the “Email” tag as explained in my previous answer.

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question and for your suggested solution.

Unfortunately, the plugin, which I am using to save form data to the database, only looks at the form fields. It does not take account of the email tab.

I don’t think I can use any of those fields in the ‘form’ tab. Or am I misunderstanding this?

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Philip Jones.

Hi Philip,

I apologize for any misunderstanding I might have caused, but I was under the impression that we were talking about CF7 (Contact Form 7) due to the support thread: Support ? Plugin: Contact Form 7 Dynamic Text Extension ? Is it possible to get remote IP address in a hidden field?

If you’re using CF7 then yes, you can include all of those I mentioned earlier. To achieve what you are looking for, in the “Email” tab = where you define what information you, the site owner, receive in the email after the visitor submits the the form. Example;

Message:
[your-message]

Visitor information:
[_remote_ip]
[_user_agent]
[_date]
[_time]
[_post_url]

To answer your question in a more specific way; there is no need for a hidden field anywhere using CF7 since CF7 per default accepts all of those tags I mentioned.

Hi again,

I’m sorry – here’s a solution for you. Since you’re reading all incoming correspondence using the cf7db, try this to make the field hidden.

[dynamichidden useripnr id:useridnr uneditable “CF7_GET key=’_remote_ip'”]

That should work.

Should be:

[dynamichidden useripnr id:useridnr readonly “CF7_GET key=’_remote_ip’”]

I tried it and I still get the local host ip.

127.0.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36

Hi,

Okay, is it the same if trying from your phone?
127.0.0.1 otherwise indicates a localhost installation. Can you try it on a live production site?

Same thing and same with people who contacted me from other countries.

Hi,

Thanks again for your help. However I tried the tag and it’s returning an empty value:

[dynamichidden useripnr id:useridnr readonly “CF7_GET key=’_remote_ip’”]

I replaced the curly speech marks with ” and ‘ just to be sure. I also tried changing useripnr and useridnr around, as I’m not sure if the difference is intended.

Can you offer any other suggestions, please?

Hi,

If you have Contact Form 7 and Dynamic Text plugin installed, then the bracket I gave you as an example;

[dynamichidden useripnr id:useridnr readonly “CF7_GET key=’_remote_ip’”]

Then that works. It works for me on six different sites with different themes.

[dynamichidden ruip readonly “CF7_get_post_var key=’_remote_ip'”]

Try using it that way. “ruip” is for remote user ip.

Hi @bjornenblog

Have the same issue as Philip Jones unfortunately.

Also need to add these fields in the Form tab – not the Message tab to enable the info to be sent to Zapier using “https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/cf7-to-zapier/”. Dynamic text in the message field is not sent. They have to be a hidden form field.

Tried [dynamichidden ruip readonly “CF7_get_post_var key=’_remote_ip’”] and [dynamichidden useripnr id:useridnr readonly “CF7_GET key=’_remote_ip’”] to the form however nothing is sent.

How can I do that? Being able to do this would enable support for Zapier.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by appscaptain. Reason: Clarification

I figured out why this wasn’t working.

When you cut and paste the code in, it changes the quotes from single quotes to inverted apostrophes and a similar thing with the double quotes.

I’ve got the hidden fields in my forms now, but when I read the HTML source the variables are empty (i.e. no IP address). Any ideas what I’m missing?