To further increase the functionality of Moodle I added a small PHP script which detects if a user is on campus or working remotely.  With this script I am able to show different information and restrict information based upon location.

First we need to get the network information of the user

$IP = $_SERVER[''REMOTE_ADDR''];

$hostname = @gethostbyaddr ($IP);

Then we can create a variable which stores the hostname

$hostnamecheck = strstr($hostname,"college"); Read more »