Would like to have an IP address search facility for the IP details recorded on customer orders and the mailing list records.

The original reason for wanting about an IP search facility is that we've been trialling an automated click fraud app for unwarranted or spurious click charges from the likes of Google ads. The app provides a live report of IP addresses that have repeatedly clicked through from online ads and which it thinks might be related to click fraud - after a certain number of chargeable clicks it then adds the IP address to a block list to prevent further clicks. In particular we've seen a continued spike in chargeable clicks from the Google Ads display network since they started to roll out the updated platform experience in the middle of July. An IP address search facility would help to see if any of the IP addresses that end up getting blocked are actually from legitimate customers who go on to order product from the website.

We also periodically receive orders where massive quantities of product are added to the shopping cart but the final part of the card payment process is not completed or fails. Whilst we can block the specific IP address recorded against the spam order we've also noticed whilst searching in the Store Admin>Mailing List using partial E-Mail addresses (from the spam orders) we can see that the same IP addresses and also others in similar IP ranges have previously visited the site and tried the same thing.

An IP address search facility would help to narrow down specific addresses or ranges of addresses that we might want to add to the ECT IP blocking list or htaccess file going forward. It would also be useful for housekeeping on the mailing list section just so any associated spam E-Mail addresses can also be deleted.

Neil

I have this worked out for .php and .asp - Search IP address in your admin.

It's just a few lines added to the vsadmin/inc/incorders.php (.asp) page.
I am offering it for free.
You will need to redo the changes when you install an update.
Typically I use a free file compare program to do that.
I have commented my changes so they are easy to spot in the code.

If there is interest, I will post it in the tips section.

Hi Dave,

Many thanks for the reply.

And yes the code would be useful.

Thanks again.

Neil

I would be very interested but I'm on PHP

I'll post it as a tip this evening. I have it for .asp and .php

David

Here you go. https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=110678
I offer a money back guarantee if it doesn't work.