How to read client hostname in PHP
The following article is about how to use PHP to read out the client hostname, which is the computer name of a visitor. If you search in the internet, you will find out soon, that the whole thing is not so trivial. Either one gets simply wrong answers or one gets solutions, not in PHP but for example implemented in VBScript or it is said that it is not possible at all. But since it works, I would like to show you how to read the computer name, now.
But before we look at the solution, let’s take a quick look at the suggested solutions on the internet and explain why they are wrong or not recommended.
How to not read the client hostname in PHP
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