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in the attached image, i'm looking at the "who's online" page. I have a php traffic report page for a customer that, when accessed, echoes out database data that has been stored by way of another php script that captures geoLocation data (ip address of ISP, referrer page, date/time of visit) using PHP global variables.
my question is - how does this forum script know the identity of the google spiders? in my traffic report, i am only capturing the ip address of the ISP as the identifying information. from what I understand, it's not possible to capture the actual location of the visitor, only the ISP's location. if I look up the ip address on an ip lookup website, i can see that it is a google spider, but can this be done through PHP scripting?
my question is - how does this forum script know the identity of the google spiders? in my traffic report, i am only capturing the ip address of the ISP as the identifying information. from what I understand, it's not possible to capture the actual location of the visitor, only the ISP's location. if I look up the ip address on an ip lookup website, i can see that it is a google spider, but can this be done through PHP scripting?