Instead of saving the entire IP number, can I save just the start so I will not break the privacy laws?
I have seen in
matomo
that they can save just IP number of the country the users are coming from.
Can we do it in LimeSurvey?
As far as I know, there is no way to detect the IP address directly with JavaScript but you should be able to make an AJAX call to a PHP script the returns the IP address and then parse that and load it into a short-text question.
Something like this in the source of the short-text:
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){
// Identify this question
var thisQuestion = $('#question{QID}');
// AJAX call to the PHP file
$.get('https://pathTo/returnIP.php', function(data) {
// Create an array of the IP address character sets
var ipArray = data.split('.');
// Load the text element with the first character set in the array
$('input:text', thisQuestion).val(ipArray[0]);
});
});
</script>
And, maybe something like this in the PHP file but you should research this to see if there is a more secure method:
Thanks.
How do they say? "It's above my pay grade."
I mean It's too difficult for me :S
Is it a "feature request-able" thing that I can post (an option that lets the survey creator choose if to collect full IP or part of it to the survey)?
Is it a "feature request-able" thing that I can post (an option that lets the survey creator choose if to collect full IP or part of it to the survey)?
Of course you can, but there are other feature requests that I would consider far more important waiting for years now, so I think chances are low that this will be implemented as a feature. Maybe someone creates a Plugin for it.
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