I used to get the Members IP address this way: 
$_cusIp = $ENV{'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'} || $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};

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However, I was told that || was old and no longer acceptable and now I should use 'or' like this: 
$_cusIp = $ENV{'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'} or $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};

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so I changed to that, in a lot of places. however, the latter one is the one that works now, since we are not using forwarding anymore so it should be working but the ip addresses are all blank in the database when they were not when using the pipes. So was I wrong in changing to the use of the word or instead of the two pipes?

I have not updated it to do this for now: 
$_cusIp = $ENV{'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'};
$_cusIp = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} if !$_cusIp;

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Until I find out for sure.

thx,
Richard

In reply to use of pipes and 'or' by powerhouse

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