Ips filter are really useful if you are developing a website for a small quantity of people, or you just dont want the people to access the application outside an intranet.
Actually Yii has a IPFilter that is uded by GII. I wanted to know if anyone knows how to implement it in any webpage, controller, or module.
Could be really useful!
Thanks in advance! 
Use the ‘ips’ property of the CAccessrule instead.
Or you add a beforeAction method to your base controller (compontents/Controller.php) and check the allowed ip there.
Or you implement the solution like Gii. You only have to take a look at the source of GiiModule.php
Take a look at the following:
Access Control Filter
“ips” is one of the parameters for access rules. You’d have to put both a filters() and accessRules() method in each controller.
I use it and it works great.
I did something like this :
public function accessRules() {
return array(
array('allow',
'actions' => array('index','view', 'create', 'update', 'manage'),
'ips' => array('127.0.0.1'),
),
array('deny',
'actions' => array('index','view', 'create', 'update', 'manage'),
'ips' => array('*'),
),
);
}
So, Actually I need to use the acess rule in every controller.
Any idea of how to do this automatically without extending a new controller ?
At the end was a easier solution to implement the ipFilter in a common controller.
This is the code in the common controller.
public function filterAccessControl($filterChain) {
$rules = $this->accessRules();
$filter = new CAccessControlFilter;
// All the allow rules
$allowRules[] = array('allow',
'actions' => array('index', 'view', 'create', 'update', 'manage', 'list', 'show', 'list', 'admin', 'delete', 'logout', 'login'),
'ips' => array('127.0.0.1','200.42.167.146'));
$filter->setRules($allowRules);
//All the deny rules
$denyRules[] = array('deny',
'ips' => array('*'));
$filter->setRules($denyRules);
$filter->filter($filterChain);
}
I hope that this will be useful for some of you. If you have other ideas or improvements, could be ool to share.
Ok, this will be the last time.
I created a more professional solution:
I created a Common Controller
I created a common Control filter
I just use my filter instead of the deffault
My common conctroller has the following.
public function filterAccessControl($filterChain) {
$rules = $this->accessRules();
$filter = new myControlFilter();
$filter->setRules($rules);
$filter->filter($filterChain);
}
myControlFilter :
class myControlFilter extends CAccessControlFilter {
private $_IPS_ALLOW = array('127.0.0.1');
protected function preFilter($filterChain) {
$app = Yii::app();
$request = $app->getRequest();
$ip = $request->getUserHostAddress();
if (in_array($ip, $this->_IPS_ALLOW)) {
return parent::preFilter($filterChain);
} else {
return false;
}
}
}
And that is it ! is elegant, and I will not have any trouble with the filters because of the IP. Now I just need to add a message or something to say that is not authorized .
Thanks for all the tips, I could not do it without them.
Just a short note. You can always use a Yii::app()->param for a global ip list. E.g.
public function accessRules() {
return array(
array('allow',
'actions' => array('index','view', 'create', 'update', 'manage'),
'ips' => Yii::app()->params['allowIps'],//updated to pull list from Yii app params
),
array('deny',
'actions' => array('index','view', 'create', 'update', 'manage'),
'ips' => array('*'),
),
);
}
#in /protected/config/main.php
'params'=>array(
// this is used in contact page
'allowedIps'=>array('22.150.133.177'),
),