Question: How should I call this function? I'm new to PHP. Here's my code... but I have an error 

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> Notice: Undefined variable: ip in C:\xampp\htdocs\PHPTest\ip.php on line 19
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```
    <?php
    function getRealIpAddr(){
        if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))   //check ip from share internet
        {
          $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
        }
        elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))   //to check ip is pass from proxy
        {
          $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
        }
        else
        {
          $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        }
        return $ip;
    }
    call_user_func('getRealIpAddr', '$ip');
    echo $ip;
    ?>

```

**UPDATE**

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> Strange reason, I'm using Windows 10, localhost, xampp and google Chrome this script doesn't provide me an ip address! That's why a corrected code was empty... Thought it was some kind of errors or something
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**Second UPDATE**

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> If you're getting no ip like me, you may try this solution [on httpd.conf](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3699454/should-a-mamp-return-1-as-ip-on-localhost)
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Answer: 
Error is very clear `$ip` is not defined:

**Modified Code:**

```
<?
function getRealIpAddr(){
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))   //check ip from share internet
    {
        $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    }
    elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))   //to check ip is pass from proxy
    {
        $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    }
    else
    {
        $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }
    return $ip;
}

$ip = getRealIpAddr(); // your function
echo $ip;
?>

```

If you want to use `$ip` variable that you defined inside the function than note that scope of the `$ip` is limited into the function.

You can not call this variable outside the function. for this you need to store it in a variable as like above mentioned example (`$ip = getRealIpAddr();`).
Your function `return`s the IP address, so assign a variable to the return value of the function, like so:

`$ip = getRealIpAddr();`