Customer IP Addresses

[charmandhammer]

I know people have looked for customer ip addresses before for earlier versions of Miva and in my old store I used to log them.... Since I upgraded to the new Iron & Wool Ready Theme, Miva 9.00064 I no longer see the ip addresses for customer orders.

I noticed under "order processing" the Authorization Failures tab there IS a column that shows the customer IP address for the failures. BUT

I don't see that column under the orders tab? Where can I find the IP address of the successful orders?

[Matt Zimmermann]

The best way to capture the IP address of the customer would be to create a custom customer field with the code of "order_ip" and then add the following code to your INVC page:

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:page:code CIN 'INVC'">
    <mvt:item name="customfields" param="Write_Order(l.settings:order:id, 'order_ip', s.remote_addr)" />
</mvt:if>

Once this is in place, you will be able to go into an order, click on the "Custom Fields" link, and see the order IP address.

[charmandhammer]

That will work, I guess my quandry is that the system is already logging ip address for the failures. Why wouldn't it do it for the successes. If it prints out on the INVC - the customer sees their own Ip address, not the admin/backend of the store?

[Matt Zimmermann]

I'm not sure about the tracking for successful orders; I will have to check into that. As for the displaying on INVC, the code I provided will only set the IP as a custom field which is visible only in the administration portal when you view the details of an order; so the customer will never see it.

[charmandhammer]

ok I got it working. That is, I can see the ip address in the individual order details. Thank you.

[charmandhammer]

Can I take this further, and show the country the customer's IP address is associated with? What would that code look like?

[Matt Zimmermann]

For that you would need to connect with a third-party geo-location service or have a database of IP address to perform the look-up your self.