IP & user country

[matjaz]

hello,

do you have any short routine which would return country name of a visitor? sth like:

function getcountry ($ip_number) {
$x = "country name...";
return $x;
}

i know i could use ripe and other info services and parse the response. but is there any routine written yet?

Matjaz

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IP numbers are not bound to a country, so it's impossible to find out which country your hit is from without looking at the DNS, and even then it's not reliable.