Log Customer IP Address During Registration

Does anyone know of an addon or just a way to record the IP address of the customer registering so it can be easily viewed in the Customers section of the Admin panel? I am aware Zen Cart does it during a purchase but I would like it during registration too. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

I'm not aware of any add-in to do this, so you would probably need to be build it from scratch by adding a field to the customer table and capturing this information in the create_account module.

Thanks! But.... I am far from a coder lol so I couldn't do it without some more info. I know how to edit code with direct instruction lol.

Just curious - what use will it be to have the customer's IP address recorded? I know mine changes at the whim of my ISP, so that I can't get financial websites to recognize that I am at the same computer I was at the last time I logged in.

The IP address gives me your general location which would be used to estimate the fraud potential.

Sounds reasonable, though I've heard that it is possible for fraudsters to spoof their ip address so it looks like they are coming from a different location. Most of them don't do that, though.

gjh42 is right.

If you're hoping to minimize fraud, trying to do so by logging IP address is futile. 99% of the public connects to the internet using dynamically generated IP addresses, and fraudsters do indeed spoof their IP's.

The best prevention against fraud are to:

• make sure your site and your server are as secure as possible by correctly configuring security elements and using the most up-to-date versions of zencart,
• install and configure SSL (dedicated SSL is best),
• consider using CAPTCHA scripts on mailer forms and user input submissions,

And in the commercial process...

• View different billing and shipping addresses as suspicious until proven otherwise.
• Use a proper online payment gateway for c-card transactions.
• Never store credit card data in your database.
• Do not accept online orders from people in countries you would not normally do business with. Telephone interested customers and verify their credentials.
• View your user logs daily and look for suspicious behaviours.
• Report any suspicious attempts to hack your site to your hosting service immediately.

Can the customer's IP address be captured & recorded during their registration process?
Would be helpful when doing sales, click thru analysis, etc.

I don't know about their registration ip address. But I do know the Ip address of the customer is logged when they place an order and can be displayed from the orders page in admin.

Yes, that makes me believe it should be possible to capture their IP at the git-go!
Gonna take someone much smarter than me to do so though!

You could add a new field to the customers table ...

Then, when the record is created you can add the current ip_address from the $_SESSION['customers_ip_address'] in the create_account module ...