Ok, answering my own question here. This is the code I added to my PHP login page to make it work
function returnmacAddress() {
// This code is under the GNU Public Licence
// Written by michael_stankiewicz {don't spam} at yahoo {no spam} dot com
// Get the arp executable path
$location = `which arp`;
$location = rtrim($location);
// Execute the arp command and store the output in $arpTable
$arpTable = `$location -a`;
// Split the output so every line is an entry of the $arpSplitted array
$arpSplitted = split("\n",$arpTable);
// Get the remote ip address (the ip address of the client, the browser)
$remoteIp = $GLOBALS['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$remoteIp = str_replace(".", "\\.", $remoteIp);
// Cycle the array to find the match with the remote ip address
foreach ($arpSplitted as $value) {
// Split every arp line, this is done in case the format of the arp
// command output is a bit different than expected
$valueSplitted = split(" ",$value);
foreach ($valueSplitted as $spLine) {
if (preg_match("/$remoteIp/",$spLine)) {
$ipFound = true;
}
// The ip address has been found, now rescan all the string
// to get the mac address
if ($ipFound) {
// Rescan all the string, in case the mac address, in the string
// returned by arp, comes before the ip address
// (you know, Murphy's laws)
reset($valueSplitted);
foreach ($valueSplitted as $spLine) {
if (preg_match("/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][:-]"."[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][:-]"."[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][:-]"."[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][:-]"."[0-9a-f][0-9a-f][:-]"."[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/i",$spLine)) {
return $spLine;
}
}
}
$ipFound = false;
}
}
return false;
}
?>
And then where I want to display the MAC address we put:
