Ok here is a cool trick I figured out that I hope will be helpful to someone: What if you wanted to block all the incoming ip addresses from a given country to a given site using only PHP and mySQL (without using .htaccess, etc.) and be able to log who you blocked into your mySQL database? First, you need to have a white list or a black list. I got mine from http://software77.net/geo-ip/ because they were free, based off of countries and worked pretty darn well. For myself, I used the x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y...