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Definition

flood_is_allowed($name, $threshold)
drupal-6/includes/common.inc, line 978

Description

Check if the current visitor (hostname/IP) is allowed to proceed with the specified event.

The user is allowed to proceed if he did not trigger the specified event more than $threshold times per hour.

Parameters

$name The name of the event.

$number The maximum number of the specified event per hour (per visitor).

Return value

True if the user did not exceed the hourly threshold. False otherwise.

Code

<?php
function flood_is_allowed($name, $threshold) {
  $number = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {flood} WHERE event = '%s' AND hostname = '%s' AND timestamp > %d", $name, ip_address(), time() - 3600));
  return ($number < $threshold ? TRUE : FALSE);
}
?>